From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from axis.scu.edu.au(wwwproxy.scu.edu.au[203.2.32.1]) (1349 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 08:27:53 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA14117 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:27:50 +1000 (EST) Received: from data.home (mail@annex29.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.129]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA13735 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:27:49 +1000 (EST) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 12c5xL-0006Fs-00; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:27:47 +1000 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:27:47 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang X-Sender: geoff@data.home To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: another newbie In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi Ron - great to have you on-board. If you're in to trouble-shooting hardware probs then linux is for you. The w;ay to close linux is by using the shutdown command. Hopefully zipspeak is set up so that control-alt-del invokes this. The command is: shutdown -h now to halt the system. Use -r instead to reboot. Geoff.