Shutting down cleanly ... sync; sync; sync;

From: Guntis Sprenne <guntis_at_cyberstate.infi.net>
Date: Fri Apr 27 09:38:35 2001

>> In fact... I seem to remember that the Ultrix-11 installation
>> manual specified this action during the installation process.
>> No urban legend.. I remember doing it on a home -11...
>> sync; sync; sync; halt

>Years ago (so far back in another year it will be ontopic), this was
the
>correct way to shutdown Linux as well.

And years before that - SCO XENIX and then SYSTEM V Unix - we were
told the same thing, though this way
sync
sync
sync
shutdown / halt (or whatever the command was)

Delurking here for a bit.

My sole collectibles are TI 990's and the TI PC (the first computer I
owned). Most haven't been fired up in a while. Was once a field
service tech for TI way back when. Still have a good bit of
documentation and half-forgotten knowledge of those machines. I also
know a much smaller bit about the TI Unix and LISP boxes.

FWIW.

Guntis.
Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 09:38:35 BST