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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Internationalization in UNIX and X
Message-ID: <1990Apr7.205914.5840@alphalpha.com>
Date: 7 Apr 90 20:59:14 GMT
References: <1990Apr5.213320.15067@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Apr5.213320.15067@agate.berkeley.edu> pbrown@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Philip Brown) writes:
>would let me do the same thing?  The idea is not to have to restart the
>system, as this is on a token ring network, and taking it down would do
>nasty things to anyone who has an account on that machine's disk, and was
>working on a file at that time!

Good grief, you never have to shutdown that far if you just want to
restart.  Doing an 'ex' in the DM will take you down low enough to
restart all the software, but the network will still be up and the
disk accessable, so remote users won't notice.  I think if you aren't
running the DM you can get an equivalent shutdown by killing init,
although I'm not sure with what signal (probably TSTP).
	
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