That is good information, ?yvind. I am beginning to work more and more with the terminal nowadays. I have used a GUI with magnification all of my life, and I am getting more accomplished in the command line much more quickly than I ever did using a GUI, although a GUI environment does have its advantages sometimes. On 01/26/2012 11:12 PM, ?yvind Lode wrote: > 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 at braille.uwo.ca [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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
