From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 22:28:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A029537B400 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id AF3860410112; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:31:20 -0800 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:28:12 +0000 From: Chip Wiegand To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: proper shutdown command Message-Id: <20020310222812.1b78e0cf.chip@wiegand.org> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I read that there is a differance between using - halt and shutdown. Supposedly using halt runs the risk of causing a non-graceful shutdown. Is this true? I use halt just because it's shorter to type than shutdown -h now. Am I doing any damage to my system by using halt? (I rarely shutdown my pc anyway, maybe a couple times a year at most). -- Chip W www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message