On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 11:08 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2024-08-25 at 10:48 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:
> > Same here. However these are reasonable measures on a multi-user
> > system. On a single-user desktop they just get in the way,
> > especially with journal-based filesystems.
> >
>
> Then you can simply use 'shutdown now'.

I don't want to shutdown. I want to reboot, but allow a shorter timeout
than the default.

This has now been solved.

Sorry, I was just addressing the shutdown comment.

Even so, there would be 'shutdown -r now'.

and replace 'now' with the amount of time you wanted to wait.