On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:
> > 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.
Doing that is the only thing that prevents my Sun Ultra running
Solaris 8 from needing a manual fsck... I tend to issue three syncs on
all of my systems just to be on the safe side (see, the magic number
three is not superstition), and taught students in a UNIX class that
they should do this.
BTW, in case anyone's interested, I've still got a very limited number
of spare copies of the textbook "A Quick and Simple Introduction to
UNIX for MS-DOS Users" around here somewhere (no, I didn't mention
syncing in the text), which was typeset on a classic PERQ T2 graphics
workstation using the Mint document processing software. US$25 plus
shipping (these were produced in small runs, and that's what it cost
me per copy).
I only began writing the book as I needed to write something in order
to figure out how to use Mint. :-)
It's my understanding that IDOCS Mint was ported to Sun workstations;
is there anyone here who knows anything about this port? Somewhere in
some old e-mail, I've got a letter from the person who wrote it, but
he never got back to me with any more information.
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Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 22:02:40 BST