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From: scottl@engin.umich.edu (scott allen long)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: All these calendar files (Just the FAQ's, Mam)
Date: 5 Apr 1993 18:41:41 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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In article <CGD.93Apr5105124@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>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...)

I has been my experience that if I don't since it at least 3 times, I get
a LOT of filesystem errors when I reboot.

>
>
>
>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

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