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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!marble.uknet.ac.uk!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Shutdown problem. Message-ID: <1993Apr6.123017.14823@cm.cf.ac.uk> Date: 6 Apr 93 12:30:15 GMT References: <1pgqjfINNjs5@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> <1993Apr5.192613.16534@sci34hub.sci.com> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: /usr/local/lib/rn/organisation Lines: 19 In article <1993Apr5.192613.16534@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes: >Shutdown should eventually prompt you to hit any key to reboot; it usually >takes a minute or so before this appears. Only if you specify the -h flag to shutdown. > >Personally, I got tired of having to tell it "now" every time I forgot, so >I linked the shutdown command from the boot floppy (it's installed somewhere >under /usr, but not in the path) to /usr/bin/down. Seems to work fine; less >hassle to type, and I don't have to worry about options. Well if you're the only user on the system, which most 386BSD systems are, then you might as well just type halt in the first place. All shutdown does is be a little more polite to other users on the system -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk