From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 29 08:08:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA19853 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:08:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA19839 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA29455; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:08:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA12748; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:07:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:07:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: Rick Morel cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN Question In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970729105635.00907d18@mail.morelr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Rick Morel wrote: > 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"???? ctlinnd shutdown "because I think the moon is made of green cheese" It is just a message that is logged as a reason for the shutdown. It matters more for things like throttle and pause where you need the same message (or an empty one using something like '') to get the server running again. shutdown just needs something.