2009/3/29 Bill Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:th1bill@sbcglobal.net">th1bill@sbcglobal.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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> Message: 5<br>
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:45:26 +0100<br>
> From: "Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)" <<a href="mailto:amedee-ubuntu@amedee.be">amedee-ubuntu@amedee.be</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: Shut down times<br>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"<br>
<div class="im">> <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>
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> Bill Taylor schreef:<br>
> > Is it possible to edit the shut down time and make it 3 secs.<br>
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</div>> Hello Bill,<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> I hardly ever shut down my computer. I use sleep or suspend, and that<br>
> takes only a few seconds. For those rare times that I do shut down my<br>
> 'puter (perhaps once a month or so) I really don't mind that it takes up<br>
> to 30 seconds.<br>
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> May I ask a counterquestion? Why do you want your computer to shut down<br>
> so fast?<br>
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> Amedee<br>
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Before everyone goes off on me, I'll explain. I live in a poor<br>
neighborhood and When a CPU is seen on the side of the street, folks in<br>
my church pick it up and deliver it to me and I refurbish it and install<br>
Ubuntu. These units usually are given to first year university students<br>
and occasionally to someone my age, from 60 to 70 years of age.<br>
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Being a disabled War Veteran I cannot work and instead give free phone<br>
and on site Tech Assistance. The number one complaint from the youth<br>
and the elderly is the requirement to either clicking Shut Down in two<br>
places or wait for sixty seconds for the machine to begin the shut-down<br>
process. I have already edited grub.lst to a three second interval for<br>
most of these folks and I promised to research the possibility of a<br>
simular wait for shut-down bur a google search did not help me.<br>
<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div></div><div>60 seconds before beginning the shut down process? That can't be right, can it?</div><div>I will try that on my system and then get back here…</div><div></div><div>J.R. </div>