Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I still maintain (assuming you are at the console) that the easiest way
> to bring the system down though is .
Although there are many reasons why someone might disable the
three-finger-salute, or change its behavior. On several of my machines, most
notab
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, mud99 wrote:
> how about just doing an init 6 or init 0? is this okay?
init 6 is what shutdown does. This will reboot the system. init 0
should just bring it down and halt it (no reboot, you have to manually
reset it to get it to reboot). I still maintain (assuming you are a
>On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Vidiot wrote:
>
>> > A guy I work with says he shuts down his RH 5.0 by tpying:
>> >
>> > sync;sync;halt
>> >
>> > I shutdown my RH 5.0 with the command listed in the manual:
>> >
>> > shutdown -h now
>> >
>> > Just wondering if there is a difference bet
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Vidiot wrote:
> > A guy I work with says he shuts down his RH 5.0 by tpying:
> >
> > sync;sync;halt
> >
> > I shutdown my RH 5.0 with the command listed in the manual:
> >
> > shutdown -h now
> >
> > Just wondering if there is a differ
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 09:05:11AM -0700, Brad Davis wrote:
> > > A guy I work with says he shuts down his RH 5.0 by tpying:
> > >
> > > sync;sync;halt
> > >
> > > I shutdown my RH 5.0 with the command listed in the manual:
> > >
> > > shutdown -h now
> > >
> >
>The shutdown command works nicely and avoids having to wait for the syncs
>to finish...
But, syncs are still done.
MB
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> > A guy I work with says he shuts down his RH 5.0 by tpying:
> >
> > sync;sync;halt
> >
> > I shutdown my RH 5.0 with the command listed in the manual:
> >
> > shutdown -h now
> >
> > Just wondering if there is a difference between the two and is there a
> A guy I work with says he shuts down his RH 5.0 by tpying:
>
> sync;sync;halt
>
> I shutdown my RH 5.0 with the command listed in the manual:
>
> shutdown -h now
>
> Just wondering if there is a difference between the two and is there a
> preferred m
