Re: [TCLUG:9281] Lost Linux Password

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

shutdown interacts with init, since real init isn't running, shutdown
doesn't work properly

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Chris Kesler wrote:

> 
> > save that, and do "sync; sync; sync; halt"
> > 
> > after that, run 
> > sync; sync; sync
> > (just for fun)
> > 
> > and then 
> > mount -o remount,ro /
> > 
> > then run halt.. that should drop the system as nicely as possible
> 
> 
> I'm curious.  Why do you do all that, when 'shutdown -r now' is available?
> I'm looking at the man page for halt and it seems to say that calling halt
> directly may not be safe, depending on which version of init you're using.
> 
> Chris
> 
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