Re: messages when shutting down

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 09:37 am, Renato Haber wrote: > Hi! > > I have a minor error that is not affecting my system, but still is > irritating me... :) > > When I shut down (or reboot) my system, I get one black window, and that > is it! The messages telling stopping this, stopping that, do

messages when shutting down

Hi! I have a minor error that is not affecting my system, but still is irritating me... :) When I shut down (or reboot) my system, I get one black window, and that is it! The messages telling stopping this, stopping that, do not appear (the services are being stopped). I am running RH 9 o

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

boot into init 3 while running linux, it boots into console mode. from there you can use your X server firing up with startx. rrs On 28 Mar 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > Forgive an amateur... > > When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 box, and I like to have > X running so I can

shutting down X

Change the run level to 3, so that after booting it does not goes into X windows. Whenever you need X type the following on the shell #startx When X session is over, logout to come back to shell prompt. Kishor ___ Odomos -

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 15:38, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Before you start actually doing this, try to determine that X *is* > slowing your system down. When it's inactive, it's unlikely to impact > performance in any significant way. Shutting it down just makes more > bother for you... Y'all are

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

You're absolutely right; I'd completely forgotten that aspect of PuTTY. And I used to use it all the time at my last job. On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 13:58, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 28-Mar-2003/13:30 -0800, "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hence my use of SquirrelMail, actually

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Richard S. Crawford wrote: Forgive an amateur... ... As I understand it, I certainly don't need X running to make IMAP, Apache, SSHD, or any of the other remote programs I run work. But X can be a major resource hog, and slows things down when I'm logging in remotely. Before you start actuall

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On 28-Mar-2003/13:30 -0800, "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hence my use of SquirrelMail, actually. I wanted to be able to read my >personal e-mail using a web browser; that way I could read it from any >web-connected computer without having to install any additional software >(l

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:24, Jack Bowling wrote: > I gave up on remotely using X for mail reading a long time ago. Learn to use ssh and > then use fetchmail->procmail->mutt and you will be much happier as well as amazed at > the speed gain you will obtain. I still like eye-candy when I am at hom

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

** Reply to message from "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:07:13 -0800 > Forgive an amateur... > > When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 box, and I like to have > X running so I can run applications like Evolution, Mozilla, and so on. > > When I'm on th

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On Friday 28 March 2003 01:54 pm, Robert Adkins II wrote: > > > I have found that X needs to be running on the remote server > with the gdm greeter running in order to connect with Cygwin. Hm.. I don't see why that needs to be the case. If you have Cygwin+Xfree86 in your local as the X ser

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Richard S. Crawford wrote: Is there an easy and painless way I can shut down X before I leave on business trips, and start it back up again when I'm at home, without having to reboot the machine? Switch to a non-graphical console using [Alt][F2] then login as root and issue the command: telinit 3

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

David H wrote: user these keys at the same time. That won't work if he's running a typical graphical login configuration. It will just end the current session. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo

RE: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Hello, >user these keys at the same time. > All that does is restart X. Which won't do what you need to do. >--- "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> Forgive an amateur... >> >> When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 >> box, and I like to have >> X running so

RE: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

As root, on a virtual terminal, init 3 init 5 will restart the X login. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard S. Crawford Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to shut down X without shutting down the

RE: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Assuming he's in runlevel 3 -Steve -Original Message- From: DuSTiN KRySaK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:17 PM To: Redhat Mailing List Subject: Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer? On 3/28/03 10:07 AM, "Richard S. Crawfor

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On Friday 28 March 2003 01:07 pm, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > As I understand it, I certainly don't need X running to make IMAP, > Apache, SSHD, or any of the other remote programs I run work. Correct > Is there an easy and painless way I can shut down X before I leave on > business trips, and

RE: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer? Forgive an amateur... When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 box, and I like to have X running so I can run applications like Evolution, Mozilla,

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On 3/28/03 10:07 AM, "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spit this out onto my computer screen: >From the redhat menu - choose logout. Then you will be at the terminal. # exit to log the user off. Upon return login at the terminal then # startx Done deal. d -- redhat-list m

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

user these keys at the same time. --- "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgive an amateur... > > When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 > box, and I like to have > X running so I can run applications like Evolution, > Mozilla, and so on. > > When I'm on the road (whi

How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Forgive an amateur... When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 box, and I like to have X running so I can run applications like Evolution, Mozilla, and so on. When I'm on the road (which I am far too often for my job), I use a Windows XP laptop, and I log into my desktop computer remotely

Re: Shutting down RedHat 8 with NFS mounts active

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Michael Mansour wrote: [...] > Sometimes it's very impractible (and sometimes I > forget) to dismount all exported volumes before > shutting down the NFS server. > > What can I do to "fix" this? It is likely that they are still in use and

RE: Shutting down RedHat 8 with NFS mounts active

01:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shutting down RedHat 8 with NFS mounts active Hi, I have a Red Hat 8 server exporting NFS filesystems. When I shutdown the server (to halt or reboot) it hangs on the part where it has to shutdown NFS services. Nothing I do will get it out of this part without

Shutting down RedHat 8 with NFS mounts active

journal). Of course if I remove the mounts from other servers mounting those filesystems first, the NFS server shuts down cleanly for a reboot without a problem. Sometimes it's very impractible (and sometimes I forget) to dismount all exported volumes before shutting down the NFS server. Wha

Re: shutting down?

yes. i see Quoting Caleb Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > it must work as root. otherwise it does not work. > > i have set it from webmin. > > when i set the user not to root it says you cannot shutdown if you are not > > > root > > > >

Re: shutting down?

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it must work as root. otherwise it does not work. > i have set it from webmin. > when i set the user not to root it says you cannot shutdown if you are not > root > Exactly, so did you add this cron job to _root's_ crontab? Try this:

Re: shutting down?

it must work as root. otherwise it does not work. i have set it from webmin. when i set the user not to root it says you cannot shutdown if you are not root Quoting Caleb Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My crontab is "26 21 * * * shutdow

Re: shutting down?

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My crontab is "26 21 * * * shutdown -h 0" > Quoting Caleb Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For your user or root? If it's your user, can you type "shutdown -h 0" and get it to shutdown? (not as root but as your user) -- Caleb Groom <[EMAIL PR

Re: shutting down?

My crontab is "26 21 * * * shutdown -h 0" Quoting Caleb Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 14:59, Kaya Buyukcelen wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to shutdown the computer with "shutdown -h now" command everyday at > 4:45 am > > i cannot use cron jobs. they dont work. > > how can i add

Re: shutting down?

i dont know the command. i add from webmin. i show the user root. i say run command it shuts the computer down but it does not execute on the time i scheduled Quoting Raymundo Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There is a crontab for each user, make sure that > shutdown is configured on root crontab, ot

Re: shutting down?

There is a crontab for each user, make sure that shutdown is configured on root crontab, oterhwise it won't work. raymundo Caleb Groom wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 14:59, Kaya Buyukcelen wrote: Hello, I want to shutdown the computer with "shutdown -h now" command everyday at 4:45 am i cannot u

Re: shutting down?

Are you adding them to root's cron jobs or yours? On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 15:59, Kaya Buyukcelen wrote: > Hello, > I want to shutdown the computer with "shutdown -h now" command everyday at 4:45 am > i cannot use cron jobs. they dont work. > how can i add a scheduled job without cron jobs? > > also

Re: shutting down?

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 14:59, Kaya Buyukcelen wrote: > Hello, > I want to shutdown the computer with "shutdown -h now" command everyday at 4:45 am > i cannot use cron jobs. they dont work. > how can i add a scheduled job without cron jobs? > > also when i add cron job it does not work. > what can i

shutting down?

Hello, I want to shutdown the computer with "shutdown -h now" command everyday at 4:45 am i cannot use cron jobs. they dont work. how can i add a scheduled job without cron jobs? also when i add cron job it does not work. what can i do for that? regards, kaya.

Re: Shutting down a Windows 2000 server from Linux or vice-versa (slightly off-topic)

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 08:46:45 -0230, you wrote: >Folks, > >I have a RH7.0 server and a Windows 2000 server and only one UPS (APC >Back-UPS 1000). Is there some way that I can have the RH7.0 box >shutdown the Win2K box when the power fails? Of course, the reverse >would also work! I'm using nut

Re: Shutting down a Windows 2000 server from Linux or vice-versa (slightly off-topic)

ssage - From: "Mike Pelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 7:16 AM Subject: Shutting down a Windows 2000 server from Linux or vice-versa (slightly off-topic) > Folks, > > I have a RH7.0 server and a Windows 2000 server and onl

Shutting down a Windows 2000 server from Linux or vice-versa (slightly off-topic)

Folks, I have a RH7.0 server and a Windows 2000 server and only one UPS (APC Back-UPS 1000). Is there some way that I can have the RH7.0 box shutdown the Win2K box when the power fails? Of course, the reverse would also work! Thanks! Cheers, Mike

Shutting down ppp link

I would like to allow any user to shut down my ppp0 connecting. Currently I have a ppp-off script (standard one with the 7.3 distribution) and it kills the process, but it won't kill the ppp process unless the owner executes the ppp-off script. I have tried setting 'chmod +s ppp-off' and that d

Re: Shutting Down network connection

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 03:32:58 -0500 (EST) "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: > > >On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:18:31 -0500 (EST) > >Dave Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> They wo

Re: Shutting Down network connection

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: >On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:18:31 -0500 (EST) >Dave Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> They work fine for me on my 7.2 laptop as root. They're in /sbin which >> may not be in your path: >> >> as root, t

Re: Shutting Down network connection

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:56:20 -0400 "Chris Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/init.d/network stop === Thanks, Chris. I'll give that a try also! Mike -- "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- Albert Einstein _

RE: Shutting Down network connection

] Subject: Shutting Down network connection On my one mandrake laptop, I can disconnect from my network (to leave my office) by gracefully disconnecting from the network with "ifdown eth0" and then later, after reconnecting the cat5 cable, "ifup eth0". These commands don't s

Re: Shutting Down network connection

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:18:31 -0500 (EST) Dave Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They work fine for me on my 7.2 laptop as root. They're in /sbin which > may not be in your path: > > as root, try: /sbin/ifdown eth0 Thanks, Dave. I have tried as root (necessary o

Re: Shutting Down network connection

h0". These > commands don't seem to exist in my RH 7.2 laptop. Is there a way of > shutting down the network card, temporarily, and then restarting it, > (before unplugging the cable)? I tried "ifconfig eth0 down", but no luck > there either. > TIA, > Mike

Shutting Down network connection

On my one mandrake laptop, I can disconnect from my network (to leave my office) by gracefully disconnecting from the network with "ifdown eth0" and then later, after reconnecting the cat5 cable, "ifup eth0". These commands don't seem to exist in my RH 7.2 laptop. I

shutting down gets stuck

It seems that when I shutdown or reboot my redhat 7.2 system (something I rarely do), shutdown gets stuck. Here's what happens exactly: - I either type reboot or choose reboot from the menu. - X quits and I see the non-X login prompt - I then see: mdrecoveryd thread finished - then: mdrecoveryd(

Re: Shutting down linux

have a shutdown > command on the login screen. Just clickt he shutdown, turn off the > monitor, and walk away. It's just as fast and easy as reaching for the > power button. When the OS is finished shutting down, it sends a signal to > the motherboard and the power supply is tur

Re: Shutting down linux

to do a normal shutdown by hitting the power >switch would make a LOT of people very happy. It's too bad he's not running gdm or kdm. Both of these have a shutdown command on the login screen. Just clickt he shutdown, turn off the monitor, and walk away. It's just as fast and easy

Re: Shutting down linux

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:12:00AM +, Gary Stainburn wrote: [AT -> ATX] > NO!! BAD THING! BAD THING [...] [ATX Supply] > Also, the power outlet is not switched, [...] It's NOT? I was wondering about that, as I love this feature in my SparcStations => "shutdown -hp now" (

Re: Shutting down linux

On Monday 26 November 2001 7:41 am, Bill Hartwell wrote: > On Sunday 25 November 2001 11:56 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: > > Bill Hartwell writes: > > > That's one interesting machine you have. I know about binding > > > ctrl-alt-del to the shutdown command, but normally a power switch is > > > directl

Re: Shutting down linux

Bill Hartwell wrote: > Looks like I'm going to have to see about upgrading my system, then. Mine > still uses an AT motherboard. I suppose that'll mean a new case, too, to > accomodate the new-style power supply Case, not necessarily. If you have one of the newer AT cases, the size of t

RE: Shutting down linux

. Thanks and regards Moke -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Hartwell Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutting down linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 November 2001

Re: Shutting down linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 November 2001 11:56 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: > Bill Hartwell writes: > > > > That's one interesting machine you have. I know about binding > > ctrl-alt-del to the shutdown command, but normally a power switch is > > directly linked to the

Re: Shutting down linux

Bill Hartwell writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 25 November 2001 10:27 pm, Redhat mailing list wrote: >> Hi, >> What I mean is normally shutdown, sorry i 4got to clear this. I have two >> OS running on my machine, >> one is >> windows 2000 and the other i

RE: Shutting down linux

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 26 November 2001 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutting down linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 November 2001 10:27 pm, Redhat mailing list wrote: > Hi, > What I mean is normally shutdown, sorry i 4got to clea

Re: Shutting down linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 November 2001 10:27 pm, Redhat mailing list wrote: > Hi, > What I mean is normally shutdown, sorry i 4got to clear this. I have two > OS running on my machine, > one is > windows 2000 and the other is linux. when I'm running windows and

Re: Shutting down linux

Hi, What I mean is normally shutdown, sorry i 4got to clear this. I have two OS running on my machine, one is windows 2000 and the other is linux. when I'm running windows and press my power switch, the windows OS normaly shutdowns, not just turning the power off. Im thinking if this could b

Re: Shutting down linux

;re willing to wait for it to check all of the partitions at > boot each times, and BIG partitions can take a loooonnnggg time to > check. Or shutting down without using the shutdown command can possibly > corrupt a partition, make you go to single-user mode for maintenance, > manually

Re: Shutting down linux

--VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 04:50:08PM +0800, Redhat mailing list wrote: >=20 >=20 > Hi, >=20 > Is it possible to shutdown linux thru power switch instead of > CTRL-A

Re: Shutting down linux

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 04:50:08PM +0800, Redhat mailing list wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to shutdown linux thru power switch instead of >> CTRL-ALT-DEL or shutdown command?? > > Possible? Yes. > > Advisable? Absolutely not! You risk file syste

Re: Shutting down linux

;re willing to wait for it to check all of the partitions at > boot each times, and BIG partitions can take a loooonnnggg time to > check. Or shutting down without using the shutdown command can possibly > corrupt a partition, make you go to single-user mode for maintenance, > manually run

Re: Shutting down linux

ect Shutdown on the gdm System menu, turn off the monitor, and walk away. The computer will turn off by itself when the shutdown process is complete. Obviously, if you're running on older hardware, shutting down properly each time can get to be a pain, but recovering from backup is worse. To

Re: Shutting down linux

whether Linux, BSD, OS/2, Macintosh, Windoze, or whatever. If you kill the power without properly shutting down, sooner or later you WILL corrupt your files - maybe badly enough to require reinstalling your system. - -- All private email sent with PGP encryption. Email for k

Re: Shutting down linux

Hi,carlo! Never shutdown your system just press the power button,use halt to shutdown and reboot to reboot your system,press power whill lost the information not write to disk yet...sometimes it will damage your system >Hi, > >Is it possible to shutdown linux thru power switch ins

Re: Shutting down linux

On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 03:50, Redhat mailing list wrote: > Is it possible to shutdown linux thru power switch instead of > CTRL-ALT-DEL or shutdown command?? No. You must do a proper shutdown each time or your files may be damaged. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Problem shutting down eth0

Hi, I have regularly problem so shut up eth0 down. On a few occasion this did cause the shutting down of the machine to hang while the system attempts to shut down the eth0 interface. Thus I end up with a unproperly unmounted filesystem. On other occasion I can shut it down manually. This

Re: RH6.1 normal shutting down messages

Are you using an EPOX motherboard? I had this problem until I flashed the bios with an upgrade (look for linux on http://WWW.EPOX.COM/support/bios.html) Mike On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, ::--Koshy Kerteya--~!~ wrote: > Hi, > > I have a RH6.1 and whenever I issued a 'shutdown -h now' or halt > > I wo

Re: RH6.1 normal shutting down messages

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 03:01:17AM +0800, ::--Koshy Kerteya--~!~ wrote: > Hi, > > I have a RH6.1 and whenever I issued a 'shutdown -h now' or halt > > I would get a list of modules getting terminated signals till > some line with 'md' (??) thread recovery ? waking up ? > After which I would get

RH6.1 normal shutting down messages

Hi, I have a RH6.1 and whenever I issued a 'shutdown -h now' or halt I would get a list of modules getting terminated signals till some line with 'md' (??) thread recovery ? waking up ? After which I would get lots o/p to the screen, with tracecalls ? In short, it looks a lot like debugging to m

Re: Shutting Down RH Linux

Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still maintain (assuming you are at the console) that the easiest way > to bring the system down though is . Although there are many reasons why someone might disable the three-finger-salute, or change its behavior. On several of my machines, most notab

Re: Shutting Down RH Linux

On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, mud99 wrote: > how about just doing an init 6 or init 0? is this okay? init 6 is what shutdown does. This will reboot the system. init 0 should just bring it down and halt it (no reboot, you have to manually reset it to get it to reboot). I still maintain (assuming you are a

Re: FW: Shutting Down RH Linux

On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, james huckle wrote: > I've always used 'reboot'. It seems to work as well as sysv 'shutdown'. > The man pg for halt says reboot or halt calls shutdown, so it does not matter. This is definitely NOT true for some other unices that I have worked with. That is why I initially h

Re: Shutting Down RH Linux

>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 bet

Re: FW: Shutting Down RH Linux

t; From:[EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Reply To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 20 March 1998 15:54 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Shutting Down RH Linux >> >> A guy I work with says he shuts down his RH 5.0 by tpyi

FW: Shutting Down RH Linux

I've always used 'reboot'. It seems to work as well as sysv 'shutdown'. James > -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 March 1998 15:54 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subje

Re: Shutting Down RH Linux

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 differ

Re: Shutting Down RH Linux

On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 09:05:11AM -0700, Brad Davis 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 > > > > >

Re: Shutting Down RH Linux

>The shutdown command works nicely and avoids having to wait for the syncs >to finish... But, syncs are still done. MB -- System Administrator - Finnigan FT/MS - Madison WI. URL:http://www.ftms.com/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (608) 273-8262 ext: 612 fax: (608) 273-8719 Visit - URL:http:/

Re: Shutting Down RH Linux

> > 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

Re: Shutting Down RH Linux

> 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 m

Shutting Down RH Linux

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