>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,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
>
> Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
>
how about just doing an init 6 or init 0? is this okay?
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