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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:37:27 -0700
From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net>
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Subject: Re: What is the proper shutdown procedure?
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:24:15 -0700 (PDT)
Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- "Bob M." <bmiddaugNOSPAM@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi everybody,
> > I was wondering what process to follow when shutting
> > down.  Do you umount
> > all the disks first?  If so, any particular order?
> > would you do umount -A
> > and does this cover / also?  Would you stop services
> > before or after or
> > not at all, does the o/s stop them for you?  Do you
> > use *exit*?  Can I
> > just hit the power button? :-)  Thanks,
> > Bob
> 
> shutdown -h now
> The -h is for halt and the now is the time
> 
> check out man shutdown

Or, if you are the only user of this machine, you can just type `halt`
to shutdown.  From man 8 halt:
"The halt and reboot utilities flush the file system cache to disk, send
all running processes a SIGTERM (and subsequently a SIGKILL) and,
respectively, halt or restart the system ... Normally, the shutdown(8)
utility is used when the system needs to be halted or restarted, giving
users advance warning of their impending doom ..."

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