[Gllug] sync,sync, init 0

jim smith jim at xoo.co.uk
Thu Jul 12 16:35:05 UTC 2001


>Simon Stewart wrote:
>>
>>  On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:35:24PM +0000, t.clarke wrote:
>>  >
>>  > I thought init did its own syncing when shutting down !
>>
>>  The sysadmin at my university thought otherwise, and there's no
>>  mention of sync in the init man page. It might just be a case of
>>  "better safe than fscked" though.
>>
>
>This has the makings of a good thread. I sense some
>evil shutdown methods on the horizon...


let a small toddler with a love of blinking lights and buttons loose 
in your server-room





(he only got the mp3 server, but it took a lot of fscking)

j
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