On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:51:32AM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> hmmm interesting discussion. but, the three finger salute was place
> there for a very good reason. in case of blasted emergencies, you will
> always have the means to restart a system gone hairy. many times have
> i experience errors most of them hardware related that the console
> freezes and network connections are dropped. the three finger salute
> is still the best way of recovering from such failures.
Another method is to telnet or ssh from a different host then shutdown
or reboot a bit more gracefully. This may even be done from a windows
host!
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coming up it.
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