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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!scottl 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 Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ppuh5INNetv@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> References: <38971@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <1ppcubINNitu@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <CGD.93Apr5105124@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: mlb.engin.umich.edu 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 -sl