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- From: holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,bit.listserv.aix-l
- Subject: Re: Reset button? Or shutdown?
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 17:58:49 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)) writes:
-
- >How safe is the yellow reset button? Is there a possibility of, for example,
- >disk crashes? Or does it shorten the life of other components? Is a proper
- >'shutdown -F' always preferred for a (warm) reboot?
-
- What about using 'sync' to sync the disks? I'm not *that* familiar with
- AIX yet, so no flames please. :-)
-
- >I am no systems manager, so I don't have permission to 'shutdown -F', but I
- >am allowed to push the yellow button.
-
- That seems like a contradiction, dontcha think? :-)
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