help with shutting down

[Robert cole]

That is good information, Øyvind.

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, Øyvind 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.
>
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> 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, Øyvind Lode wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> shutdown -h now
>>
>> to reboot: shutdown -r now
>>
>> PS: you'll need to be root or a sudoer to shutdown.
>>
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>> 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
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>> 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
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