Am 15. Sep, 2002 schwätzte Matt Alexander so:

> On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Richard L. Proctor wrote:
>
> > shutdown -h now   (turns off computer)
> > shutdown -r now  (reboots computer)
>
> Or, more succinctly:
>
> init 0   (turns off computer)
> init 6   (reboots computer)

On most *NIXen you should use shutdown as it does some other stuff before
calling init. I haven't ever really investigated it on GNU/Linux, but I'd
imagine it's a similar situation.

ciao,

der.hans
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