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From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: shutdown
In-Reply-To: <199705120539.BAA04383@Radford.i-Plus.net> from Troy Settle at "May 12, 97 01:41:41 pm"
To: rewt@i-plus.net (Troy Settle)
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:38:22 +0100 (BST)
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> >On Sun, May 11, 1997 at 12:42:44PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> >> On Sun, 11 May 1997, Mr M P Searle wrote:
> >>
> >> > Would it break anything if the X server was kept running while
> shutting down?
> >> > (Nothing else, just that one process. The root window is set
> before starting
> >> > 'halt' - and maybe set again after the 5 seconds.)
> >> >
> >> > Michael, who has too much free time...
> >>
> >> I think that would mean that /usr couldn't be dismounted, which
> would mean
> >> that you wouldn't get a clean shutdown on the /usr filesystem, and
> it
> >> would end up being fsck'ed on startup.  I have a big disk, and
> wouldn't
> >> want to have to wait on that all the time.
> >
> >FWIW, I use 'shutdown -h now' all the time from an xterm, and have
> >never observed any ill-effects...  Everything appears to shut down
> >cleanly, and all the FSs apparently dismount just fine.
> >
> 
> I've got 'shutdown -r now' as a menu option under fvwm. Works fine,
> never had to do an fsck on rebooting.
> 

Well, I've always done 'halt' or 'reboot' from xterms (I think they are the
same as shutdown -h now or shutdown -r now.) with no problems, but that
wasn't what I meant - I meant not killing the X server when halt/rebooting.