shutdown -r now
will reboot your system right away, or
shutdown -h now
will just shutdown your computer to turn it off.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Foster [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 5:14 PM
> To: Newbie Linux
> Subject: [newbie] Here is the dumbest question ever asked!
>
> I can call this the dumbest question ever because it is and it's mine.
>
> What command do you use to logoff and shutdown the system? I have it set
> to
> load X at startup and I can choose logoff, but that just puts me at the X
> login screen again. I have just been hitting the reset button to reboot,
> but
> Linux yells at me the next time I boot it up.
>
> Thanks.. this is really the least of my concerns/questions at the moment,
> but I'll save the other ones for later when I've learned a bit more.
