From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 13 14:04:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14851 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:04:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14846 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:04:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29916; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:04:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd029876; Sun Dec 13 15:03:52 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09407; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 15:03:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199812132203.PAA09407@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: PAO Integration? To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:03:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp, mark@grondar.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199812110109.SAA65255@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Dec 10, 98 06:09:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : > > shutdown -h. What is wrong with this? > : > > : > It is wrong. > > Why? Traditionally Unix hasn't run on hardware that has software > power off. Who can say what traditional unix is when the hardware has > a new feature? The AT&T 3B2 I uses to use had soft power-off... to get UNIX hardware old than that, you'd need to use a VAX. The VAX at the Univeristy of Utah at the time I was there could switch off its UPS; it didn't normally do this, of course, but the possibility was there. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message