Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:38:22 +0100 (BST) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: rewt@i-plus.net (Troy Settle) Cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shutdown Message-ID: <949.199705121038@halicore.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199705120539.BAA04383@Radford.i-Plus.net> from Troy Settle at "May 12, 97 01:41:41 pm"
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> >On Sun, May 11, 1997 at 12:42:44PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> On Sun, 11 May 1997, Mr M P Searle wrote: > >> > >> > Would it break anything if the X server was kept running while > shutting down? > >> > (Nothing else, just that one process. The root window is set > before starting > >> > 'halt' - and maybe set again after the 5 seconds.) > >> > > >> > Michael, who has too much free time... > >> > >> I think that would mean that /usr couldn't be dismounted, which > would mean > >> that you wouldn't get a clean shutdown on the /usr filesystem, and > it > >> would end up being fsck'ed on startup. I have a big disk, and > wouldn't > >> want to have to wait on that all the time. > > > >FWIW, I use 'shutdown -h now' all the time from an xterm, and have > >never observed any ill-effects... Everything appears to shut down > >cleanly, and all the FSs apparently dismount just fine. > > > > I've got 'shutdown -r now' as a menu option under fvwm. Works fine, > never had to do an fsck on rebooting. > Well, I've always done 'halt' or 'reboot' from xterms (I think they are the same as shutdown -h now or shutdown -r now.) with no problems, but that wasn't what I meant - I meant not killing the X server when halt/rebooting.
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