On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Vidiot wrote:
> > A guy I work with says he shuts down his RH 5.0 by tpying:
> >
> > sync;sync;halt
> >
> > I shutdown my RH 5.0 with the command listed in the manual:
> >
> > shutdown -h now
> >
> > Just wondering if there is a difference between the two and is there a
> > preferred method for the sake of the Linux Kernel.
>
> I just do a halt.
If you just do a halt how do you know all of the disk buffers are
flushed and the disks unmounted? Why not just do a three finger salute and
have the thing shutdown gracefully or run shutdown (which btw does the
same thing)?
......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
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Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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