Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 19:28:36 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Sean Batson <seanb012@sunbeach.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutdown tip Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961230192730.29174D-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <32C87FC1.41C67EA6@sunbeach.net>
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On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Sean Batson wrote: > 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. What difference does it make? You will see buffers written to disk if some other process was active also. Tom
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