Re: [TCLUG:9281] Lost Linux Password

[Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>]

Ah, that makes sense.  Thanks.
Chris

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ben Kochie wrote:

> 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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