Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:04:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: rnielsen@cariari.ucr.ac.cr (Jose Pablo Coto Rojas) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Turning the computer off Message-ID: <199604240804.CAA04046@terra.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <01BB316E.AD9C8420@e941127> from "Jose Pablo Coto Rojas" at Apr 19, 96 01:36:13 am
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After exiting X:
# shutdown -h now
This will sync the disks properly and set the clean flag on the disks you
have mounted at the time. Don't just turn off the computer - it's not
just a bad idea anymore, it's a really bad idea. :-)
The shutdown command goes through, kills off all of the daemons that are
running, gives processes a chance to exit politely and clean up after
themselves, and then just kills them, and does the abovementioned disk
synching (making sure what the kernel thinks is supposed to be on the
disks is actually on the disks).
-Dave Andersen
Lo and behold, Jose Pablo Coto Rojas once said:
>
> What is the way to turn of the computer. When I log out from the X, and =
> I just turn the computer off, the when I come back and turn it back on, =
> it comes with a warning about the / directory no beeing well dismounted.
> Is there a special way to Shut Down the computer?
>
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