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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] shutting down
  • Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:19:21 +1300

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > 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.

halt does the same thing. If you look at /etc/inittab
in BL3, you will see that CTRL-ALT-DEL calls /sbin/reboot.
Feel free to change that to /sbin/halt.

Cheers,
Steven




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