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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
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Apr5105124@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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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
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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