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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] init vs. telinit vs. shutdown vs. ....
From:       Theodore Reed <ted.reed () gmail ! com>
Date:       2004-09-06 18:07:41
Message-ID: c19ee8be040906110775077413 () mail ! gmail ! com
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They all work the same basic way, or are shortcuts to each other. Just
use whichever is most convenient for you. (I tend to use halt and
reboot commands because I have no need for timed shutdowns, nor do I
like to type a lot.)


On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 20:04:17 +0200, Christian Parpart
<cparpart@surakware.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a little confused. There're lots of ways telling the host to shutdown (or
> reboot).
> 
> I usually use "shutdown -h now" to shutdown, as this was the very first
> command I learned to shutdown.
> init is the (hierarichal seen) root process that can also be used to switch
> between the runlevels, though, init 0, to shutdown as well.
> Then, I read about telinit, that is to be used to tell init to switch between
> the runlevels.
> Not to mention halt, reboot, and poweroff.
> 
> Any comments?
> Christian Parpart.
> 
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