Subject: Re: Shutdown - not too fast?
To: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/01/2006 10:57:44
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:42:15AM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:52:03AM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
>=20
> > If you're not running powerd(8), pushing the button does just that,
> > powering off the machine.
>=20
> Yes, you're right - indeed: I forgot to add "powerd=3DYES" to /etc/rc.con=
f.
>=20
> > Almost like pulling out the power chord.
>=20
> It doesn't look that bad - seems, that even without powerd the system is
> halted in quite "soft" way.

If the file-systems happened to be in a consistent state, or all mounted
read-only, then it was fine, but anything else warrants a fsck at
reboot.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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