Re: Quit all programs
Re: Quit all programs
- Subject: Re: Quit all programs
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 04:38:07 -0500
You can force a shutdown in the Terminal by doing:
/sbin/shutdown -h now
and a reboot by:
/sbin/shutdown -r now
These need to be executed as root (or through sudo) and they do not
exit Mac OS X applications cleanly, they just force quit them without
bringing up save dialogs or any kind of warning. Even though this may
be what you want you could seriously mess up some programs by
force-closing them like this, so use it carefully. To get more
information on the shudown command go to the Terminal and do:
man shutdown
Of course to use it in an AppleScript you need to call one of two ways:
do shell script "/sbin/shutdown -h now" with administrator
privileges
or
do shell script "/sbin/shutdown -h now" password "mypassword" with
administrator privileges
The first method will bring up a dialog box asking for your password,
it is definitely the safer way since your password is not stored in the
first command like it is in the second command
- Ken
On Nov 8, 2003, at 2:38 AM, Sovereign Diamonds wrote:
I'd like to automatically quit all running programs without having to
go
through the 'do you want to save' routine followed by an orderly 'shut
down'
instruction via applescript.
Is there a Terminal command to kill all running programs in one swoop?
Or is
there an applescript way?
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