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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:19:50 -0700
From:      Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
To:        Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: "shutdown -h now" risk?
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990818161828.00bdc8e0@toy>
In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105BA8@site2s1>

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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 <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>


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