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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc
Subject: Re: shutdown(8) Versus haltsys(8)
Keywords: IBM Xenix 1.0, haltsys(8), shutdown(8)
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.014449.9640@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 91 01:44:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: mrspoc.1991Mar27.014449.9640
References: <1991Mar25.143633.16845@convex.com>
Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
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andy@piziali.lonestar.org (Andy Piziali) writes:

>What are the exact differences between these two programs?  What does shutdown
>do that haltsys does not?

Haltsys just shuts down the system ( I believe it shuts down the file
systems nicely).  Shutdown sends out warnings, sends signals to all the
user processes, and then goes through whatever you might have in files
in /etc/shutdown.d and stuff.  So shutdown is much friendlier to users
and does a cleaner job of shutting down the system.  Haltsys is for when
you're in a REAL hurry and don't care too much about users or database
syncs or that kinda stuff.
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