REISUB versus ctrl-alt-del

[Steve Flynn]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:28:24 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>
>> The first is to kill X and it can be re-enabled through the GUI or the
>> CLI. It's probably been disabled in default X installs to prevent anyone
>> from using it by mistake.
>
> Well, my question remains:  REISUB is overkill.  Isn't there anything
> less drastic which works by default?

As you said, logging out and ordering a shutdown will normally work.
The SysReq keystroke sequence intended to perform a shutdown when the
kernel is hanging barely on to it's sanity. I've had to use it twice
since 1994.


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Steve
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