Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:08:52 +0300 From: Petri Riihikallio <Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power Message-ID: <a05111b04b9ba22404693@[192.168.0.2]> In-Reply-To: <87elbf1r7d.fsf@pooh.int> References: <bulk.28113.20020926143904@hub.freebsd.org> <a05111b07b9b9ec1c1aac@[192.168.0.2]> <87elbf1r7d.fsf@pooh.int>
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>I don't *think* that any of those daemons would be harmed by unmounting the >drives. After all, you can 'kill -9' them without any permanent bad >effects. kern_shutdown.c kills all processes with signals, flushes and syncs disks etc. It just seems silly to try to duplicate a kernel function with a shell script. Reinventing the wheel with inferior tools, isn't it? >I would think so. Other people have mentioned the 'shutdown -p' command; >does it do what you need? No. It just powers down the system. You need a power-cycle to activate BIOS autoboot. If the UPS is still supplying its last drops of power when the AC power returns, there won't be any power-cycle and therefore no autoboot either. -- Cheers, Petri Metis / Petri Riihikallio GSM: +358 400 505 939 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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