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Date:      Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:08:19 +0300 
From:      Yonatan Bokovza <Yonatan@xpert.com>
To:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   reboot damage control
Message-ID:  <00BF97DD9F3FD311AB860060084E50DD311BCC@exchange.xpert.com>

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Due to a weird problem, i lost all ability to go root.
No login, no su, no network connnectivity, nothing but
physical reboot and going single-user will help. I'm logged
as a normal user, and since i'm not root i can't "shutdown"
or "halt" or "sync" anything. The thing is i want to minimize
the damage of hardware reboot. Is there anything i can do as
normal user to flush memory buffers, close important files etc?
The system in mention is 4.1 relase with generic kernel.

And just for interest, where would linux compare in this field?

Thanks in Advance,
Yonatan.


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