Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:49:55 -0700 (MST) From: George Vagner <george@www.timandpatrick.com> To: Oren Sarig <sarig@bezeqint.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Martin Gignac <martyg@sympatico.ca>, David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net> Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt- Message-ID: <XFMail.000122124955.george@vagner.com> In-Reply-To: <388A0336.650E3AE4@bezeqint.net.il>
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aha! maybe he has one of those older machines that need the "broken keyboard reset" in his kernel? On 22-Jan-00 Oren Sarig wrote: > 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 >> > > > > >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: George Vagner <george@vagner.com> Date: 22-Jan-00 Time: 12:48:58 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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