Re: RE Startup on boot

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# sync; sync; sync; poweroff

>(Note: I have no idea why they sync three times, but every sysadmin

Guy,

The three 'sync's are akin to 'die, die, die' - shoot the alien thrice just to be sure! Seriously, I used to type in 'sync' at the keyboard when I am thinking about the next command to run - previous versions of UNIX used to flush buffers once in about 15 secs and 'sync' was a way to start it off. Disks were small and slow those days (20Mb to start with and 80Mb max) and UNIX systems were known to 'hang' often...

John Kanagaraj
Brunei Shell Petroleum
http://www.geocities.com/john_sharmila

God so loved the world that He didn't send a committee! (See John 3:16 for details)
** Opinions expressed here are solely mine and not necessarily those of my employer **

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