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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Justin Gombos wrote:
> > I noticed there is no shutdown command.
>
> CTRL-ALT-DEL does a clean shutdown.
>
> > Are you folks just running swapoff, umount,
> > and sync manually?
>
> No.  If you don't like CTRL-ALT-DEL, you can
> execute:  reboot

Then it not only shuts down but reboots (back to DOS if booting with 
loadlin, or to linux with lilo).  Sometimes I don't wait long enough and 
turn it off accidentally before it starts rebooting, and it has to check 
the hard disk next time.   A shutdown command makes it more obvious when 
it is ready to turn off.

I use shutdown -h now in BL2 to avoid this.

> Cheers,
> Steven