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Article #9303Re: Ungraceful shutdowns
From: Thomas Grossi
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1988 05:38
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1988 05:38
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The system command /etc/shutdown (8) schedules a system halt or reboot and sends out messages to warn users. We made this command setuid so that any user could call it and also wrote a script (of the same name) to call it with the appropriate options (usually we want to reboot right away). If you can assume that your users are responsible people and won't abuse the command, there's probably no better way to stop a system gracefully. Thomas Grossi Cap Sogeti Innovation Grenoble, France
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mcvax!capsogeti.fr!grossi@uunet.uu.net (Thomas Grossi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Ungraceful shutdowns Message-ID: <8811171414.AA11522@csinn> Date: 1 Dec 88 05:38:00 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 10 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 88 14:14:09 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 30, message 2 of 12