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- From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
- Subject: Re: "The little yellow button" (Was: Reset button? Or shutdown?)
- Message-ID: <By6HLr.I1v@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
- References: <1992Nov18.125454.10827@fwi.uva.nl> <1992Nov21.223207.21508@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:53:51 GMT
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- jak@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Jay A. Konigsberg) writes:
- >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?
- >>
- >According to our IBM SE, pushing the "little yellow button" will sync the
- >filesystems and perform a proper shutdown/reboot sequence.
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- I get the impression it doesn't do a proper shutdown, but a full reboot - just
- like on a PC when you hit RESET, everything open gets messed up.
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- Can the button be disabled?
-
- -- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
- Software Systems Co-op, Math Faculty Computing Facility [MFCF] | All spelling
- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada | errors caused
- E-mail: mskucherawy@{math,watdragon}.UWaterloo.ca | by Pnews.
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