From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 11 10:35:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA05846 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 10:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosie.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA05841 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 10:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cola65.scsn.net ([206.25.247.65]) by rosie.scsn.net (Post.Office MTA v3.0 release 0121 ID# 0-32322U5000L100S10000) with ESMTP id AAA42 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 13:29:30 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by cola65.scsn.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) id NAA00802; Sun, 11 May 1997 13:35:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970511133524.17933@cola65.scsn.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 13:35:24 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: shutdown References: <13277.199705111623@nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Sun, May 11, 1997 at 12:42:44PM -0400 Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, May 11, 1997 at 12:42:44PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > 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. FWIW, I use 'shutdown -h now' all the time from an xterm, and have never observed any ill-effects... Everything appears to shut down cleanly, and all the FSs apparently dismount just fine. YMMV :-) -- Donald J. Maddox (dmaddox@scsn.net)