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- From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: how to shutdown -todos?
- Keywords: shutdown, booting
- Message-ID: <aeYd02P=1eZk01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 03:50:32 GMT
- References: <22231@venera.isi.edu>
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- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <22231@venera.isi.edu>, allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes:
- > I notice two shutdown programs.
- > /usr/distbin/shutdown and /sbin/shutdown.
- >
- > The distbin/ one understands -todos, the sbin/ one does not.
- >
- > Why two shutdown programs? What's the difference? Why doesn't
- > the sbin/ one understand -todos?
-
- The net was discussing this quite a while ago - I do not think it was
- ever quite understood. IMHO, the -todos option should be included in
- /sbin/shutdown. I thought the /usr/distbin programs were supposed to
- be stripped down versions of the full function versions in the bin01
- distribution and were no longer necessary after installation.
-
- > When I do /sbin/shutdown, it does a bunch of stuff and leaves me at
- > the # prompt. Then, if I execute it again, it does some more stuff
- > and leaves me at login:. Man shutdown does not really tell me enough
- > to understand this behaviour. What's going on?
-
- Try "/sbin/shutdown -h now". Its in that man page somewhere.
-
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