On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:33:05PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:08:16PM -0500, Seneca insinuated:
You could CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, login there, and enter the
reboot command.
you don't have to go to the console to do this, though -- is it
better in some way?
Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:36:16PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
CTRL+ALT+DEL is more equivalent to shutdown -r now than holding the
power button..
To be precise, under a default debian config,
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
Nathan E Norman wrote:
One day this fellow discovered MY servers. The console screen didn't
dissuade him; he just hit ctrl-alt-del to get a login screen. Sigh.
Unscheduled downtime.
Isn't this a good example of why _not_ to have
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
Nathan E Norman wrote:
[ No technical content, just a funny story ]
At a prior job, we had a bunch of servers in a datacenter. Some of
the datacenter people liked to play with the keyboard; one of them was
convinced that the only
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:36:16PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
CTRL+ALT+DEL is more equivalent to shutdown -r now than holding the
power button..
To be precise, under a default debian config, C-A-D is equivalent to
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody, and I
can't figure out how I should reboot the thing. I have GNOME 1.4
running. There's no 'reboot' menu item, and when I log out, it brings me
to the
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz insinuated:
On March 4, 2003 07:51 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:23:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson insinuated:
IMHO your box is broken somewhere if Ctrl-Alt-Del *ever* works
to reboot the machine.
so, say you're in
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
CTRL+ALT+DEL is more equivalent to shutdown -r now than holding the
power button..
To be precise, under a default debian config, C-A-D is equivalent to
`/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now`, per /etc/inittab.
--
The freedoms that we
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:06:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
However, if you trust people enough to enable
XDMCP for them, then you can probably trust them enough to shutdown/reboot
the machine.
Uh... No.
X terminals? Thin clients? Diskless workstations? Any of these may
rely on an
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:06:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
However, if you trust people enough to enable
XDMCP for them, then you can probably trust them enough to
shutdown/reboot
the machine.
Uh... No.
X terminals? Thin clients? Diskless workstations? Any of these may
rely on an
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:38:23PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker insinuated:
Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody,
and I can't figure out how I should reboot the thing. I have GNOME
1.4 running. There's no 'reboot' menu item, and when I log out, it
brings me to the GNOME
On March 4, 2003 09:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:17:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
I believe the next version of Gnome's login screen (gdm)
implements a menu allowing you to shutdown/reboot.
Hmm, doesn't the version in Woody have that cabability? GDM has
been
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