From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 16:22:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4757014C94 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 16900 invoked from network); 18 Aug 1999 23:21:59 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 18 Aug 1999 23:21:59 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990818161828.00bdc8e0@toy> X-Sender: ludwigp@toy (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:19:50 -0700 To: Christopher Michaels From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: RE: "shutdown -h now" risk? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105BA8@site2s1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:35 PM 8/18/1999 -0400, Christopher Michaels wrote: >Can someone explain to me why a "shutdown -r now" would be dangerous? >-Chris It's not. Longer answer: It pops down to single user mode (killing running daemons in the process), syncs the disks, and umounts the filesystems. Those last 2 are the important ones. --Ludwig Pummer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message