Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:41:01 +0100 From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proper shutdown command Message-ID: <3C8CC1FD.E9DF8C06@cs.umu.se> References: <20020310222812.1b78e0cf.chip@wiegand.org> <200203110815.g2B8FCw0064521@smaug.rhavenn.net> <20020311063745.07df8eb6.chip@wiegand.org>
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Chip Wiegand wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:20:05 -0600 > Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> wrote: > > > Reading the manpage for shutdown and for halt: > > > > HALT sends all running processes a SIGTERM and then a SIGKILL if > > needed > > > > SHUTDOWN runs through the INIT shutdown scripts > > > > What does this mean? If ALL your processes can be shutdown via a > > SIGTERM then you're fine, but if you have processes like a MySQL db or > > something which needs a special shutdown command passed to it in order > > to exit cleanly or process something, this will not be executed and > > data corruption or something else nasty "could" occur. > > > > Hope that helped. > > > > Henrik > > That helps, thanks. So, I should be using shutdown instead of halt, > regardless of halt being quicker to type. :-) > > Thanks, > Chip W. If it is too much to type, why don't you make an alias, that can even be shorter than halt? :-) Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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