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>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "shutdown -h now" risk? Message-ID: <19990818181702.A3248@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990818161828.00bdc8e0@toy>; from Ludwig Pummer on Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 04:19:50PM -0700 References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105BA8@site2s1> <4.2.0.58.19990818161828.00bdc8e0@toy>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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