From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 11 22:43:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00700 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 22:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Radford.i-Plus.net (root@Radford.i-Plus.net [206.99.237.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00694 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 22:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abyss (pitlord@cOnFuSeD.i-Plus.net [206.99.237.42]) by Radford.i-Plus.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA04383; Mon, 12 May 1997 01:39:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199705120539.BAA04383@Radford.i-Plus.net> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0544.0 From: "Troy Settle" To: , Subject: Re: shutdown Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:41:41 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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. -- Troy Settle Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services http://www.i-Plus.net