Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!edsews!rphroy!trux!car
From: car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Powerfail
Keywords: power fail
Message-ID: <215@trux.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 89 20:01:14 GMT
Organization: Central Cartage, Sterling Hgts., MI
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I have a Nixdorf Targon/35-M50 running TOS.3.2 which I'm told is
a Pyramid 9810 running OSX 4.0. My background is with System V Release 2.
I'm running the System V INIT.

Two powerfails this week has brought the following question into view:

How does this machine handle a power failure?

I have the following line in my /etc/rc file:

pf::powerfail:/etc/powerfail 1>/dev/console 2>&1 #power fail routines

However, my Unix release does not include the /etc/powerfail file.

Does the machine support power failure detection and pass a signal
up to Unix?

Is it safe to sync the disks in /etc/powerfail?

car.
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Christopher A. Rende           Central Cartage (Nixdorf/Pyramid/SysV/BSD4.3)
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