Cocoa app system restart

Question

Do you know any way to forcing restart an Mac OS computer from code? I tried an small applescript code without result. Applications ask for shutdown to the user so the user coul

Answer 1

Try using AppleScript/ScriptingBridge from your app to tell application "Finder" to restart.

Answer 2

The official way is to send a system event to the login window process. Apple's Technical QA1134 even includes a code example.

Answer 3

It's an usual thing to want to force. If the user is willing to type in their password and are an administrator of the computer; perhaps you can run

sudo reboot

from your application.