[Gllug] Building Intranet Kiosks

[John Clement]

Does that mean I'm showing my age?  I was taught 

sync;sync init 0

or perhaps just showing the age of my tutor?

Besides which, how am I suppose to do it then???

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of Simon Stewart
Sent: 12 July 2001 17:12
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Building Intranet Kiosks


On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:00:49PM +0100, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >... which is about as subtle as a brick through a window.
> 
> No, it's considerably more subtle than a brick through the window.
> He quite generously calls sync(), when it's not strictly necessary...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't syncing three times to disk and
then going to run level 0 the "ye olde" way of shutting down a UNIX
system?

Cheers,

Simon

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