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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
>> > > > >
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