>> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Patrick> It is true that its hard to work out how to get the machine
Patrick> off in Linux. I use halt...which no-one here suggested. Is
Patrick> it not the most logical way to halt a system?
Halt did not sync the disks. If you ask some "oldtimers" how to
shutdown a *nix system, you might hear "sync; sync; halt".
However, the manpages says:
NOTES
Under previous sysvinit releases, reboot and halt should
never be called directly. From this release on halt and
reboot invoke shutdown(8) if the system is not in runlevel
0 or 6.
Ciao,
Martin
