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- From: lpc@dickens.com (Luis P Caamano)
- Subject: Re: "The little yellow button" (Was: Reset button? Or shutdown?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.182553.21735@dickens.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:25:53 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.125454.10827@fwi.uva.nl> <1992Nov21.223207.21508@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
- Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1992Nov21.223207.21508@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> jak@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Jay A. Konigsberg) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.125454.10827@fwi.uva.nl> 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.
- >
- >I have tested this about 5 times and everything went just fine. On reboot
- >fsck did not run, nor did it need to.
- >
-
- If you keep trying you'll blow it, and when aix blows you won't be
- able to recover anything. You just didn't try enough times and probably
- not on a system that was loaded with users and applications.
-
- The yellow button is a reset, no reboot, no shutdown, no forms,
- no warning, nothing, so make sure you sync three times before the
- button and hope you don't hit the jackpot.
-
-
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- Luis P. Caamano | lpc@dickens.com
- Dickens Data Systems, Inc. Atlanta, GA | uunet!dickens.com!lpc
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