Shut down times

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/3/29 Bill Taylor <th1bill at sbcglobal.net>

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> > Message: 5
> > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:45:26 +0100
> > From: "Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
> > Subject: Re: Shut down times
> > To: "Ubuntu user technical support,   not for general discussions"
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> > Bill Taylor schreef:
> > > Is it possible to edit the shut down time and make it 3 secs.
> >
> > Hello Bill,
> >
> > I hardly ever shut down my computer. I use sleep or suspend, and that
> > takes only a few seconds. For those rare times that I do shut down my
> > 'puter (perhaps once a month or so) I really don't mind that it takes up
> > to 30 seconds.
> >
> > May I ask a counterquestion? Why do you want your computer to shut down
> > so fast?
> >
> > --
> > Amedee
> >
> >
> >
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>
> Before everyone goes off on me, I'll explain.  I live in a poor
> neighborhood and When a CPU is seen on the side of the street, folks in
> my church pick it up and deliver it to me and I refurbish it and install
> Ubuntu.  These units usually are given to first year university students
> and occasionally to someone my age, from 60 to 70 years of age.
>
> Being a disabled War Veteran I cannot work and instead give free phone
> and on site Tech Assistance.  The number one complaint from the youth
> and the elderly is the requirement to either clicking Shut Down in two
> places or wait for sixty seconds for the machine to begin the shut-down
> process.  I have already edited grub.lst to a three second interval for
> most of these folks and I promised to research the possibility of a
> simular wait for shut-down bur a google search did not help me.
>
60 seconds before beginning the shut down process? That can't be right, can
it?
I will try that on my system and then get back here…
J.R.
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