Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 06:53:36 +0100 (CET) From: List User <listuser@netspace.net.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <199812140553.GAA06265@doorway.home.lan>
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Newsgroups: freebsd.current Path: root From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: PAO Integration? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09407; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:03:49 -0700 (MST) To: imp (Warner Losh) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Private News Host Precedence: bulk Message-ID: <199812132203.PAA09407@usr09.primenet.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Delivered-To: vmailer-current@freebsd.org X-Uidl: 6a5fa3f140d06074a49b83126e445f28 X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199812110109.SAA65255@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Dec 10, 98 06:09:50 pm Cc: mike, y-nakaga, mark, current Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:03:48 GMT > : > > shutdown -h. What is wrong with this? > : > > : > It is wrong. > > Why? Traditionally Unix hasn't run on hardware that has software > power off. Who can say what traditional unix is when the hardware has > a new feature? The AT&T 3B2 I uses to use had soft power-off... to get UNIX hardware old than that, you'd need to use a VAX. The VAX at the Univeristy of Utah at the time I was there could switch off its UPS; it didn't normally do this, of course, but the possibility was there. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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