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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!cgd From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: All these calendar files (Just the FAQ's, Mam) Date: 5 Apr 93 10:51:24 Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us Lines: 23 Message-ID: <CGD.93Apr5105124@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <38971@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <1ppcubINNitu@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: erewhon.cs.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil's message of 5 Apr 1993 08:41:31 -0500 In article <1ppcubINNitu@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes: =>>2) What is the correct and safe shutdown procedure? When I typed =>>'shutdown now' there was still a shell prompt. Is this right. =>> => =>After 'shutdown now' you are returned to single user mode. The way I =>shutdown from there is 'sync; sync; sync; halt'. Remember the litany from =>the manual of armaments, concerning shuting down Unixen, '... and the count =>of the syncs shall be three, five is right out of there'. alternately, "shutdown -h now" works just as well... (you *really* don't need the syncs; halt/reboot does them for you, or should...) chris -- Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu "386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass