Just a little story for your amusement.

Ok. So I replaced my cable-modem today. Most of the effort involved was in dealing with the cable company so that they had my new mac address.

Naturally, I neglected to verify that the mythtv boxes were still recording everything ok, since the recordings have nothing to do with the network. Or so one would think.

No, at 10pm, I discover to my horror that The Office didn't record, nor did 2 other shows! Conflicts! Gahhhh!

I check system info, and notice that tuners 3 and 4 are unavailable again. Damn. Ok. I run downstairs and check it. The machine seems ok. I hit alt-f3 and check upstairs. No difference.

I go downstairs and try to play a recording there. The system immediately hangs. WTF?

End up having to restart it. Loads the linux desktop fine, but nothing I can do will give me the MythTV program. Rebooting, restarting, nothing. (btw, is there a way to shutdown while in linux and while not in mythtv? I don't know how except from the shutdown command in mythtv. None of the desktop commands I can almost read seemed to work.)

So I'm scratching my head while going back upstairs. I stop at my regular machine and try to putty into that box. Can't connect. I try to ping it. No luck. Aha!

I'd had to power-cycle the router a few times while on the phone with the cable co. Maybe I yanked on a cable?

I look at the router. No light on one of the cables. Unplug and replug in the network cable. Light goes on. I run downstairs. Things are working again!

Gah!

Now, you might be wondering why this post has "stupid pet tricks" embedded in the title. Well, that's simple. I blamed it all on the cat!

cute. you could "shutdown -h now" to stop a linux machine. Or if you want to reboot "shutdown -r now".

Thanks. I'll remember that for the next time I screw it up.

Typing reboot at a command prompt also works nicely.

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That's why I'm a dog person...

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Does the "dog" have a lot of gas?

I always use the command reboot (as root) or poweroff

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