From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 12:31: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB431156D5 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:30:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Received: from nasby.net (sysnasby@2.nasby.dsl.enteract.com [216.80.51.18]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA96776 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:30:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Message-ID: <388A137E.8D1A92ED@nasby.net> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:30:54 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" Organization: distributed.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt-del? References: <000701bf6501$016a9c80$40e3acce@martingignac> <3889FA37.8A85F7B2@bezeqint.net.il> <003b01bf650a$0cc245c0$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca> <388A001A.E358464F@bezeqint.net.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW, I've been told by at least one 'greybeard' that using shutdown and reboot is a bad habit to get into, because on many other OS's, they don't do a clean shutdown. I always use shutdown -(h|r) now (well, except on my vinum box which seems to lock up with anything other than halt :( ). Also, unless you honest-to-God really need to reboot (basically, if you've changed the kernel), you can usually just do a shutdown now, hit return when it asks for a shell, and type exit. That will re-run almost all of the rc processes. Oren Sarig wrote: > > 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 > -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message