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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:17:02 -0700
From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
To: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
Cc: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>,
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Subject: Re: "shutdown -h now" risk?
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On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 04:19:50PM -0700, Ludwig Pummer wrote:
> 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.
> 


	``shutdown -r now'' does a shutdown and reboot immediately.
	It's ``shutdown now'' that lowers the system from multi-user
	to single-user.

	(Unless there was a recent change from 2.2.8 -> 3.2)

	gary



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