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- From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
- Subject: Re: "The little yellow button" (Was: Reset button? Or shutdown?)
- References: <1992Nov18.125454.10827@fwi.uva.nl> <1992Nov21.223207.21508@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <By6HLr.I1v@math.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Organization: IBM Champaign
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:38:09 GMT
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- mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
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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?
- >>According to our IBM SE, pushing the "little yellow button" will sync the
- >>filesystems and perform a proper shutdown/reboot sequence.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >Can the button be disabled?
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- I don't believe that it syncs anything. When I need to push it, I issue the
- sync command first (don't need to be root for that), then press the BYB.
-
- Yes, it can be disabled by putting the key in "secure" mode.
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- Bob Shair shair@vnet.ibm.com
- Scientific Computing Specialist SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
- IBM Champaign
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