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On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 09:18:44 -0800
Russ
At the login prompt, I logged in as root, then halt. Worked fine then.
Still won't log in normally though.
Thanks Captn Crsh
Russ wrote:
As I suspected, it wouldn't boot. So I went into failsafe mode. At the login prompt, I logged in as me. then startx and went into YaST to fix it (don't think it did anything though). Anyway, logged out of KDE and back to the login screen. Now how do I shut down? Exit logs me out, halt does nothing, I'm stuck.
Can anyone recommend a good SuSE 9.0 book I can buy? (maybe I'm a purist): The proper way to shutdown a Unix/Linux system from non-graphical mode is to issue the shutdown command. In Linux, shutdown is located in /sbin: as root (or from your account using sudo or su): /sbin/shutdown -h now This will tell the system to properly shutdown now. The command profile is: /sbin/shutdown [-t sec] [-arkhzncfF] time [warning-message]
Time is usually expressed in minutes. In a multi-user system, the admins
generally specify a time with a description as a warning for logged in
users.
One reason to use the shutdown command rather than halt or init 6 or the
three finger salute is that shutdown generally issues the sync system
call and shuts down your system properly.
There are many books on Unix and Linux available in the bookstores or
online. The book we use at Northeastern University is the O'Reilly
Running Linux 4th Edition. The original authors were Matt Welsh and Lar
Kaufman. Matt was the originator of the Linux Documentation project. Lar
is a long time member of the Boston Linux and Unix group. I personally
think the book is a bit dated, but any text you buy for Linux will be.
SuSE comes with nearly all manuals online, but most of the type of
things you want are either generic Unix/Linux, Linux, KDE etc, and not
specific to SuSE.
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Jerry Feldman