-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 March 2003 12:31 pm, Tom Emerson wrote:
On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:43 am, H du Plooy wrote:
This still does the stopping_this_service stopping_that_service and takes a good 30 seconds before the machine switches off. This is too long.
thought of one more [but haven't tested it] from a console [i.e., outside of "X"], press ctl-alt-delete -- this should flush queues and jump to the "reboot" routine in your BIOS, and while the system is going through the "POST" operation, you can safely hit the power switch to shut the system off - -- that should cut your shutdown time to roughly 3-5 seconds - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dOWSV/YHUqq2SwsRApcyAJ9WwMqwMefHGPZQlgG9TXyBjS6+hACdG3MS W1bNFkkPr6uJUWxbrCo+y7Q= =mn3e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----