From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 29 03:56:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA04038 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 03:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m20.morelr.com (mail.morelr.com [206.240.30.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA04029 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 03:56:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m3 (m3 [206.240.30.3]) by m20.morelr.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA29150 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 05:56:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970729105635.00907d18@mail.morelr.com> X-Sender: rmorel@mail.morelr.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 05:56:35 -0500 To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rick Morel Subject: Re: INN Question Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Palmer wrote: >Did you shut inn down cleanly? It sounds like you just rebooted >without giving inn a chance to sync its incore datastructures >successfully to disk. > Ka-Booongggg. That must be it. I have seen references to "shut down cleanly" somewhere. Yes, I simply did a "shutdown -r now" to reboot. Rather than search out and experiment, can you give the proper way to shut inn down before a reboot? It looks like "ctlinnd shutdown reason..." from doing "ctlinnd -h", but what "reason"???? Thanks Rick