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J. Cary Howell wrote:
> shutdown -r -t 10 "System reboot; please logout now"
> 
> might work a little better for you.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:54 -0400, Christopher Coleman wrote:
> 
>>The commands reboots the system immediately without providing users with 
>>time to close their apps. They work fine on single user systems. On 
>>multi-user systems, shutdown is used to send a message to users 
>>indicating the system is going down and give them time to log out.
>>
>>shutdown -r 10 "system reboot; logout now"
>>
>>Will reboot the system in 10 minutes. The message in quotes will be sent 
>>to all logged in users once every minute. When the time is under a 
>>minute remaining, the message will be sent every few seconds.
>>
>>Jimmy Oliver wrote:
>>
>>>Which is the preferred way to reboot a linux box?  I have always used  
>>>init 6.  The box in question is a RHEL 3 install.  My understanding  
>>>of the RedHat init scripts was that shutdown just called init 6  
>>>anyway.  Can someone give the preferred method, and detail the  
>>>differences between the 3?
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>-Jimmy
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