another newbie

[Jacob Schmude]

What about the "halt" and "reboot" commands, they do the same thing.
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi Ron - great to have you on-board.  If you're in to trouble-shooting
> hardware probs then linux is for you.
> 
> The w;ay to close linux is by using the shutdown command.  Hopefully
> zipspeak is set up so that control-alt-del invokes this.  The command is:
> 
> 	shutdown -h now
> 
> to halt the system.  Use -r instead to reboot.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
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