Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 21 August 2006 22:08, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Monday 21 August 2006 21:56, Leendert Meyer wrote:
> > On Monday 21 August 2006 21:34, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > On Monday 21 August 2006 21:32, Leendert Meyer wrote:
> > > > Why is that better? If I am logged in twice (ssh) on a remote pc, and
> > > > I issue a "shutdown -h now; exit" on one terminal, then the other
> > > > terminal gets a warning message, and that connection is closed. So
> > > > why all the extra work? (I've switched myself into learning mode...
> > > > ;)
> > >
> > > Rebooting just to log out a user?
> >
> > We were not talking about that (rebooting just to log out a user).
>
> "We" weren't, but it sure looked like you were.  shutdown -h powers off the
> machine. What did you intend for it to do?
>
> The OP wanted simply to forcibly log out a user (not all users)

Aha! Someone else (Jerry) pointed me at "Short of rebooting", but I did not 
understand him. That would mean probably something like "up to but not 
including rebooting". I thought it meant "right before rebooting" or "at the 
point of rebooting", and actually doing the "rebooting". I was wrong.

Ok. Learned something. Thanks. :)

(These kind of situations always remind me of the song "Communication 
Breakdown", Led Zeppelin I, which it was, sort of...)

Cheers,

Leen