From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 14: 3:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.sci.fi (ds9.sci.fi [195.74.0.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A335115A13 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:03:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from ispro.net.tr (dyn-0-059.tku.netti.fi [195.16.223.60]) by ds9.sci.fi (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA11468; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:03:00 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <37BB1F37.EBE94366@ispro.net.tr> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:01:43 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Stewart Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "shutdown -h now" risk? References: <99081723302100.00453@Tomer.Home.Org> <37B9D09B.3224B635@3-cities.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did not know that "shutdown -h now" is dangerous, what is the problem with it? Kent Stewart wrote: > > Tomer Weller wrote: > > > > Does FreeBSD do a hard reset or a soft reset ? (sorry for the newbie question) > > If it soft resets, how can I change that to hard ? > > If you do anything short of a "shutdown -h now", you are putting your > system at risk. How big a chance do you feel like taking. Is your > system important? > > Kent > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > > SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message