From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 11:50:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com (cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com [24.14.27.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2DA15880 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:50:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vagner@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com) Received: (from vagner@localhost) by cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA03998; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:49:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from vagner) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <388A0336.650E3AE4@bezeqint.net.il> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:49:55 -0700 (MST) From: George Vagner To: Oren Sarig Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt- Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Martin Gignac , David Fuchs Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG aha! maybe he has one of those older machines that need the "broken keyboard reset" in his kernel? On 22-Jan-00 Oren Sarig wrote: > Not that I know of. > > -- > Oren Sarig > sarig@bezeqint.net.il > > David Fuchs wrote: >> >> Really... well it didn't do it for me. Am I supposed to configure it >> seperately? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Oren Sarig >> To: David Fuchs >> Cc: Martin Gignac ; >> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 11:08 >> Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and >> ctrl-alt-del? >> >> > Actually, ctrl+alt+del in syscons does a drive sync, and shuts down >> > all proccesses etc. just like shutdown does, and fsck doesn't scan the >> > drives at boot time. >> > >> > -- >> > Oren Sarig >> > sarig@bezeqint.net.il >> > >> > David Fuchs wrote: >> > > >> > > Oh no... I hope you guys aren't all pressing ctrl-alt-delete because >> it's >> > > faster! >> > > >> > > When you do a ctrl-alt-delete, your drives aren't being unmounted >> properly. >> > > The program fsck (File System Consistency Check) will find that the >> drives >> > > weren't properly unmounted and therefore it will scan each partition of >> > > every drive for errors. It will then reboot your computer in order to >> > > properly re-mount the drives. >> > > >> > > I did a ctrl-alt-delete once and had to wait 20 minutes before my system >> was >> > > functional again. (tip: not good for business) >> > > >> > > Stick to reboot and you'll have less trouble in the future. >> > > >> > > -David Fuchs >> > > >> > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > From: Oren Sarig >> > > To: Martin Gignac >> > > Cc: >> > > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 10:43 >> > > Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and >> > > ctrl-alt-del? >> > > >> > > > I don't think there is a difference in the proccess that gets >> > > > executed, but if I telnet to another machine, and I use shutdown -r >> > > > now, the other machine would reboot, but if I press ctrl-alt-del, my >> > > > machine would reboot. That's the main differnce, afaik. >> > > > >> > > > -- >> > > > Oren Sarig >> > > > sarig@bezeqint.net.il >> > > > >> > > > Martin Gignac wrote: >> > > > > >> > > > > Is there a difference between a reboot using the 'reboot' (or >> > > shutdown -r) >> > > > > command, and one using the ctrl-alt-delete key combination? I find >> that >> > > > > ctrl-alt-delete always seems to shutdown faster than 'reboot'... >> > > > > >> > > > > -Martin >> > > > > >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: George Vagner Date: 22-Jan-00 Time: 12:48:58 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message