Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 21:39:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "David E. Tweten" <tweten@frihet.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reboot from X? Message-ID: <199706240339.VAA04000@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199706220851.BAA09564@ns.frihet.com> References: <199706220851.BAA09564@ns.frihet.com>
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ashworth@spacehog.structured.net said:
% Is it a bad thing to reboot my system while in X-Windows?
David E. Tweten replied:
> Not at all. I've been using FreeBSD since it was 386bsd, always with
> XFree86, and always typing "shutdown" or "reboot" or "halt," as
> appropriate, from X. There's never been a problem, nor should there
> be one.
Exactly right - X is just another (set of) process(es).
If you're impatient, you can shutdown from X by typing Ctrl-F1 then
Ctrl-Alt-Del. The first will take you to the text console, and the
second will gracefully reboot the computer.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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