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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 21:21:26 +0200
From:      Oren Sarig <sarig@bezeqint.net.il>
To:        David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net>
Cc:        Martin Gignac <martyg@sympatico.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt-del?
Message-ID:  <388A0336.650E3AE4@bezeqint.net.il>
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Not that I know of.

--
Oren Sarig
sarig@bezeqint.net.il

David Fuchs wrote:
> 
> Really... well it didn't do it for me.  Am I supposed to configure it
> seperately?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Oren Sarig <sarig@bezeqint.net.il>
> To: David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net>
> Cc: Martin Gignac <martyg@sympatico.ca>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 11:08
> Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and
> ctrl-alt-del?
> 
> > Actually, ctrl+alt+del in syscons does a drive sync, and shuts down
> > all proccesses etc. just like shutdown does, and fsck doesn't scan the
> > drives at boot time.
> >
> > --
> > Oren Sarig
> > sarig@bezeqint.net.il
> >
> > David Fuchs wrote:
> > >
> > > Oh no... I hope you guys aren't all pressing ctrl-alt-delete because
> it's
> > > faster!
> > >
> > > When you do a ctrl-alt-delete, your drives aren't being unmounted
> properly.
> > > The program fsck (File System Consistency Check) will find that the
> drives
> > > weren't properly unmounted and therefore it will scan each partition of
> > > every drive for errors.  It will then reboot your computer in order to
> > > properly re-mount the drives.
> > >
> > > I did a ctrl-alt-delete once and had to wait 20 minutes before my system
> was
> > > functional again.  (tip:  not good for business)
> > >
> > > Stick to reboot and you'll have less trouble in the future.
> > >
> > > -David Fuchs
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Oren Sarig <sarig@bezeqint.net.il>
> > > To: Martin Gignac <martyg@sympatico.ca>
> > > Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 10:43
> > > Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and
> > > ctrl-alt-del?
> > >
> > > > I don't think there is a difference in the proccess that gets
> > > > executed, but if I telnet to another machine, and I use shutdown -r
> > > > now, the other machine would reboot, but if I press ctrl-alt-del, my
> > > > machine would reboot. That's the main differnce, afaik.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Oren Sarig
> > > > sarig@bezeqint.net.il
> > > >
> > > > Martin Gignac wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a difference between a reboot using the 'reboot' (or
> > > shutdown -r)
> > > > > command, and one using the ctrl-alt-delete key combination? I find
> that
> > > > > ctrl-alt-delete always seems to shutdown faster than 'reboot'...
> > > > >
> > > > > -Martin
> > > > >
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