Delay system restart after installation

Mar 05, '02 01:45:40AM

Contributed by: riffraff

If you're performing one of those annoying installations that require you to restart your mac, but you really don't feel like it yet, you can cancel it by simply having an active process running in the terminal ('top' works just fine, though I always happen to have 'pine' open).

When the restart tries to quit the Terminal application, Terminal will yell at you and give you the option to cancel, which, if you select it, will cancel the logout altogether and let you restart when you feel like it.

This is unlike OS 9, which would allow you to delay a restart in order to save a document or close a connection in a telnet app, etc., but would continue the logout as soon as you quit the offending application.

[Sudo Editor's Note: You should really restart your machine if asked by an installer, as certain system functions may not perform properly until you do so.]

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