* Two Ravens <two-ravens@opera$mail.com> writes:

> Steve Youngs wrote:
>> Actually, no, I can't.**I*can't*think*of*a*single*reason*to*reboot *in
>> this situation.**Without*saying*something*like*"I've*al ways*done*it
>> that way", can you tell me why you would reboot in this situation?

> In the case of removing the comment (#) from /sbin/modprobe apm,
> then the easiest way to check that the computer does indeed shut
> down is to reboot, (or to turn it off), using shutdown -h now.

Ah! There is my confusion. To me, a "reboot" and a "shutdown" are
two different things. And the former won't show you if having the apm
module loaded will turn off the machine, but the latter will.

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