[sf-lug] server reboot

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Akkana Peck (akkana at shallowsky.com):

> Michael Paoli writes:
> > Unless I'm in some great rush, I'm often more inclined to
> > do something like:
> > # (cd / && umask 022 && echo 'shutdown -r +2' | batch)
> 
> Lots of interesting answers, but I'm curious about the original problem.

I think Alex was just a bit impatient to get his shell control back,
which is where ~. (preceded by Enter) hurries up the process.  The
session _does_ time out, but it might take a while.