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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions
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To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (217)4/5/1999 4:38:00 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (3) of 484
 
logout is like halt as the flu is like death. It only feels that way to the person concerned. No Johnny, logging out is nothing like the halt. halting is something you must do as root. this is because it is a multi user system and you are acting as your own petty sysadmin. halting should give you a sense of power. it should feel good. something like after you kill your first jaywalker. after you halt the system you should look off the distance with a slit eyed look like Clint Eastwood and breathe words. "man is great. I am greater."

now having said that, and it should now be perfectly clear that you must shutdown the system in an orderly manner just as it said in the first reading of the manual, the words of which, by now, which you have forgotten. it is, however important to note also that all programs should be closed before you do this, particularly netscape as it/they may have problems of their own on shutdown, particularly if it not orderly and they have the open file problem.

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