restart computer from within Rev

[Sarah Reichelt]

> Well, since I can't get my little Unix script working like I want, it
> may be necessary for me to force a reboot at the end of my
> installer.  When the computer starts up again it'll run a script that
> is placed in StartupItems.  And this script seems to work fine for
> running the process as the root user.  Not sure how or why, since
> there's not really anything special there.
>
> Anyway, I thought I remembered seeing a command/function in Rev that
> will let you do this, but now I'm not finding it in the docs.  Does
> anyone know if there is one?  If not, can I do this with
> AppleScript.  If so, that would probably work for me too.
>

I've only ever done this using AppleScript. I don't recall a Rev
command to do it, but I'm sure there is a shell command if you
preferred to go that way.

Sarah