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From: brantley@coraid.com (Brantley Coile)
Subject: [TUHS] shutdown for pre-v7 unix
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:52:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10F2AC96-0CB3-4EB6-808F-A7567A7C7916@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N5aUTFQ3-XYPDsW3tX6qYwQs6eT89XctquK05mdo10LxA@mail.gmail.com>

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I never used shutdown, always three sync commands.  And when you type sync, you should type three sync commands on separate lines hitting newline after each.  Only one is needed, but the extras makes sure the operators didn’t type ‘sync’ then halt the box before the buffers were flushed.


On Jul 16, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Mark Longridge <cubexyz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I've been typing sync;sync at the shell prompt then hitting ctrl-e to
> get out of simh to shutdown v5 and v6 unix.
> 
> So far this has worked fairly well but I was wondering if there might
> be a better way to do a shutdown on early unix.
> 
> There's a piece of code for Unix v7 that I came across for doing a shutdown:
> 
> http://www.maxhost.org/other/shutdown.c
> 
> I doesn't work on pre-v7 unix, but maybe it could be modified to work?
> 
> Mark
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-16 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-16 18:55 Mark Longridge
2014-07-16 20:52 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2014-07-17  2:29   ` Win Treese
2014-07-16 21:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-16 21:23   ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-17  2:09   ` Dan Stromberg
2014-07-17 15:58     ` Warner Losh
2014-07-17 16:15       ` Clem Cole
2014-07-17 18:04         ` Ronald Natalie
2014-07-17 20:16           ` Clem Cole
2014-07-18  2:26             ` Ronald Natalie
2014-07-18  2:52               ` Tim Newsham
2014-07-18  2:58                 ` Milo Velimirovic
2014-07-18  3:42                   ` Warner Losh
2014-07-16 19:47 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-17  2:40 Norman Wilson
2014-07-17  3:55 Noel Chiappa

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