Shutting down Linux

[Janina Sajka]

The nicest thing about the 3 finger salute technique for shutting down is that you can customize it. Want it to reboot? Give it the -r switch in your /etc/inittab. Want it to poweroff instead? Give it the -h switch in aforenamed file.

Chuck Hallenbeck writes:
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> On my Slackware system I can give it the three finger salute from
> anywhere (ctrl-alt-del) and it invokes the shutdown process
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> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Vic Beckley wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > This seems like a silly question, but I will ask it anyway.  I am running Debian 3.0 R2.  In the installation manual it states to shut down the system you need to log in as root and type shutdown -h now.  Is there any quicker and easier way to shut down your computer?
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> > Best Regards from Ohio, U.S.A.
> > Vic
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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