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> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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