2 questions

[John Brier]

I can't help you with the internal modem. I do know a few ways to 
shutdown the computer though. I use "halt" as a normal user. This shuts 
down the computer and if I remember, it does it in such a way that when 
you turn it back on everything will be in the same state as when it was 
halted. "halt -p"  turns the power off when finished halting. Also you 
can try "shutdown now" I think you have to be root to do that.     You 
could try them and find out. I think there are some options to shutdown 
too.
Reading the man page for shutdown, it looks like shutdown is a "secure 
way" to "bring the system down" it gives all programs time to exit 
cleanly and save running files. When using shutdown you'll probably want 
to do  a "shutdown -h" which halts after shutdown. If you don't add -h 
the computer will be put into "state where administrative tasks can be 
performed."

PS
next time you fill in the subject, FILL IN THE SUBJECT.
for example "Internal modem not found. How to shutdown?

On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 01:42 PM, Paolo G. Cordone wrote:

> Well, since I have received no response on my query, I'll try again. I 
> also have another (probably very dumb) question:
>
> 1) I have not been able to configure is the internal modem on my 
> PowerBook 1998. "Dialup Configuration" does not detect anything and 
> thus I cannot use the PowerBook with my dial-up account.
>
> Is there anything obvious I am missing? How do I let YDL know about the 
> existence of the internal modem?
>
> 2) Is there a simple way to shutdown or reboot the system? What I am 
> doing at the moment is to log off, log on as root and type either init 
> 0 or init 6.
> Surely this is not the way to proceed as a normal user (if I did not 
> know the root password, I would not be able to log on as that just in 
> order to type the init command...)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paolo
>
> P.S.: I must say that this list has been great so far. Only a couple of 
> days and I have received a lot of good information :-)
> -- Paolo G. Cordone
> Book Review Editor
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