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From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: how to shutdown -todos?
Keywords: shutdown, booting
Message-ID: <aeYd02P=1eZk01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:50:32 GMT
References: <22231@venera.isi.edu>
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In article <22231@venera.isi.edu>, allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes:
> 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?
The net was discussing this quite a while ago - I do not think it was
ever quite understood. IMHO, the -todos option should be included in
/sbin/shutdown. I thought the /usr/distbin programs were supposed to
be stripped down versions of the full function versions in the bin01
distribution and were no longer necessary after installation.
> 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?
Try "/sbin/shutdown -h now". Its in that man page somewhere.
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