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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:30:54 -0600
From:      "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt-del?
Message-ID:  <388A137E.8D1A92ED@nasby.net>
References:  <000701bf6501$016a9c80$40e3acce@martingignac> <3889FA37.8A85F7B2@bezeqint.net.il> <003b01bf650a$0cc245c0$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca> <388A001A.E358464F@bezeqint.net.il>

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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
> 

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