Linux is so cool!

[Nat Gross]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

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>It would appear that on Mar 8, Gustavo Seabra did say:
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>>On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:05:27 -0500, David Liguori <liguorid at albany.edu> wrote:
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>>>Doug Stewart wrote:
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>>>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>>>Stephen Costigan wrote:
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>>>>>>Linux is so AWESOME man! The only thing that bugs me is there's no
>>>>>>shutdown button. How can I reboot or turn off computer? Everytime I
>>>>>>install software, it never asks me to reboot. I'm an expert Windows
>>>>>>user and I was working as an IT Manager until recently, so I know alot
>>>>>>about computers. I just need to know how to turn this thing off!
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>>>>>Log out.
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>>>>>Having logged out, there should, on the login screen, be an "Actions"
>>>>>(I think) menu you can select "shutdown" from.
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>>>>>Alternatively, from the command line, as root, try:
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>>>>># /sbin/shutdown -h now
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>>>>>Paul.
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>>>>This is just a guess, but I think Stephen was joking.
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>>>>At least, I _hope_ he was...
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>>>Well, if the guy is using KDE, last I checked, it might not be quite as obvious.  But my impression also is that he is yanking our chains.  The bit about not being asked to reboot sort of gives it away.
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>>That's only true if you are using the KDE that comes with Fedora. If
>>yoy upgrade it from the kde-redhat, and use KDM, when you click the
>>"Logout" button it actually gives you the options:
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>>o Log Out 
>>o Turn Off
>>o Restart
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>>o Cancel
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>I'm not an "expert" but I've been playing with fedora for a while now.
>And one thing I'm sure of is that there are times when I might want to
>shutdown my computer real fast. Just because my linux can [ and
>sometimes does ] stay up for days or weeks doesn't mean it has to. It is
>my personal pc to which no one is ever allowed to log in remotely. And
>it is not used as any kind of server. So whether a thunderstorm causes
>me to suddenly decided to close it down asap, or if I simply want to boot
>one of my other linux partitions, {or even occasionally to (having
>disabled the broadband connection to the internet) boot win98 or DrDos
>(usually to play some old almost forgotten game )}, I will sometime want
>to shut down or reboot. And Since I'm using the keyboard that's actually
>attached to the durned thing I never need to take the time to login as
>root to do so.
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>If I want a reboot And the gui is running, then the classic three fingered
>salute "ctrl+alt+del" gets me a confirmation pop up where  a quick enter
>(or a single click) will, (since I use startx to fire up x from run level
>three), get me out of the gui. I get a smiler effect (only faster {no
>confirmation pop-up) with "ctrl+alt+backspace"
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>Once the gui is out of the way  "ctrl+alt+del" will cause an immediate
>shutdown -r.
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>But if I simply want to shut it down, the fastest clean shut down response
>I've found so far, seams to work from any console or xterm. 
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>At the bash prompt I simply type "powerdown" 
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>It wastes no time on further input, But is shuts down so fast that you'd
>think it knew my itchy hand was already caressing the switch on the
>surge protector. 
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>So far there have only been a couple of times that I was in such a hurry
>that it didn't close down before I said fsck it and threw the switch.
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On my Dell machines, if I press the POWER button (you heard me right), 
it instantly does an ORDERLY shutdown. Same as choosing shutdown from a 
menu, or terminal prompt.
-nat