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Re: telnet reboot/halt

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Jinks)
Sun Nov 15 01:59:21 1998

Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 05:54:12 +0000
From: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
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"Anthony E. Greene" wrote:

> Login, su to root and type 'shutdown -r now' to reboot, or 'alt' to halt.

You will probably have to use "su -" rather than just "su" in order to
ensure that the halt or shutdown command gets added to your path.

Also, recent versions of RedHat have added "halt" and "reboot" commands
(I think "alt" above was a typo) which handle all the shutdown options
for you.


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