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From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: how to shutdown -todos?
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Date: 18 Aug 92 23:17:26 GMT
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Reply-To: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
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Keywords: shutdown, booting

I notice two shutdown programs.
/usr/distbin/shutdown and /sbin/shutdown.

The distbin/ one understands -todos, the sbin/ one does not.

Why two shutdown programs?  What's the difference?  Why doesn't
the sbin/ one understand -todos?

When I do /sbin/shutdown, it does a bunch of stuff and leaves me at
the # prompt.  Then, if I execute it again, it does some more stuff
and leaves me at login:.  Man shutdown does not really tell me enough
to understand this behaviour.  What's going on?

The last time I used distbin/shutdown -todos, it complained: "can't
make dos bootable".  Why not?

Dennis G. Allard
internet: allard@isi.edu
tel: 310-399-4740