Agreed! I never use shutdown -r now when I need to reboot a machine. I provided -h and -r only to provide more info on how the shutdown command syntax works. Reboot is actually just invoking shutdown -r. reboot is a symbolic link to halt and when the system is running normally (that is in runlevel 2-5) reboot will actually invoke shutdown -r and halt will invoke shutdown -h. ________________________________________ From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] on behalf of Robert cole [rkcole72984 at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 07:50 To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: help with shutting down You can also use the 'reboot' command to reboot. I used to use 'shutdown -r now', but then I got lazy. <smile> I just did a 'man reboot', and it looks like there is also a 'poweroff' command. All of these have to be run with sudo. On 01/26/2012 10:34 PM, ?yvind Lode wrote: > Hi, > > shutdown -h now > > to reboot: shutdown -r now > > PS: you'll need to be root or a sudoer to shutdown. > > ________________________________________ > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] on behalf of Glenn [GlennErvin at cableone.net] > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 07:28 > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: help with shutting down > > Hi, > I cannot get this Vinux to shut down. > Somehow I got into the terminal, so the power button does not shut it down. > I tried "shutdown --help" > and I really don't understand the options given > I try > shutdown now > and > shutdown +.05 > I either need to know how to shut down, or get back to the Gnome desktop. > Thanks. > > Glenn > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
