From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 11 09:43:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03901 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 09:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03890 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 09:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA18553; Sun, 11 May 1997 12:43:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA28706; Sun, 11 May 1997 12:43:00 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:42:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Mr M P Searle cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shutdown In-Reply-To: <13277.199705111623@nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 May 1997, Mr M P Searle wrote: > Would it break anything if the X server was kept running while shutting down? > (Nothing else, just that one process. The root window is set before starting > 'halt' - and maybe set again after the 5 seconds.) > > Michael, who has too much free time... I think that would mean that /usr couldn't be dismounted, which would mean that you wouldn't get a clean shutdown on the /usr filesystem, and it would end up being fsck'ed on startup. I have a big disk, and wouldn't want to have to wait on that all the time. > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------