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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 22:51:45 -0400
From: Sean Batson <seanb012@sunbeach.net>
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The next time you guys are about to shutdown try this:

shutdown -h now;exit

the above command should be done once all of the users
are logged off. The end results would always be this:

syncing ...disk
press anykey to reboot.
no buffers to rewrite to the filesystem.

Just do an ordernary shutdown -h now, you'll get the
usual syncing ..3 4 disk ,...

How if someone where modify the code for the shutdown
command to do a root user logout then fork or spawn
the rest of the code for the shutdown thus avoiding
the site of the buffer related numbers each time on 
a shutdown.


Sean Batson.