Date: 27 Sep 2002 08:45:42 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: Petri Riihikallio <Petri.Riihikallio@metis.fi> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power Message-ID: <87elbf1r7d.fsf@pooh.int> In-Reply-To: <a05111b07b9b9ec1c1aac@[192.168.0.2]> References: <bulk.28113.20020926143904@hub.freebsd.org> <a05111b07b9b9ec1c1aac@[192.168.0.2]>
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At 2002-09-27T11:21:18Z, Petri Riihikallio <Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi> writes: > Thank you for your thoughts. You are quite welcome. >> I think that the biggest hurdle will be making sure that your filesystems >> are cleanly unmounted. > Yes, something like that should be done. > There are still all the system daemons (sshd, postfix, named..) started > from rc that are still running. Should I try to notify them first? How > will they react when disks change to read-only? I don't *think* that any of those daemons would be harmed by unmounting the drives. After all, you can 'kill -9' them without any permanent bad effects. > I believe somebody (more competent than I) has written the necessary > script for FreeBSD. I would think so. Other people have mentioned the 'shutdown -p' command; does it do what you need? -- Kirk Strauser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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