Bryan, it's supposed to take you back to the log in screen - from there you 
are given several choices: to shut the system down; to restart X; or the 
reboot the system. Click on the shutdown button and you should see these 
choices. This is similar to the logging off dialog box you get in MS 
Windows. Hope that helps.

At 03:44 PM 2/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

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