> 
> >On 7 Oct 1996, Doug Jones wrote:
> 
> >        And to shutdown...as superuser do a "shutdown -r NOW" or reboot
> >or whatever...that'll reboot your machine...at least it does on my
> >IIsi...  not sure if it'll actually shutdown completely on other
> >machines...  this will sync your disk before the system goes offline...
> >and save you a lot of headaches later on :)
> 
> Or try "reboot" simply.

That works, but it's much better to use "shutdown" if at all possable.

Shutdown gives all the running processies a chance to stop gracefully before
pulling the plug (before it in turn calls reboot). Some applications might
not care, but I think a database server really wants to shut itself down.

Take care,

Bill