From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jh3HR-0003q0-8F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:45:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 379AEE04E6; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6D5E04E6 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B7B67644 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:45:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.133 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.133 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.466, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IOliJmllqVYv for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B0B676E5 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh3H3-0004C0-Ut for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:45:09 +0000 Received: from 62-2-78-98.static.cablecom.ch ([62.2.78.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:45:09 +0000 Received: from michael.schmarck by 62-2-78-98.static.cablecom.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:45:09 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Schmarck Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to? Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:44:46 +0200 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?xYI=?= Message-ID: <20820638.qSr0XrmN9G@schmarck.cn> References: <47EC9F50.5070503@bellsouth.net> <6142e6140803280041x2ba3250ex41712af106320cc5@mail.gmail.com> <200803280846.21068.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> <6142e6140803280051r32747bfelb383f0d19791648f@mail.gmail.com> <47ECA75A.2040906@bellsouth.net> <68b1e2610804020636rba3f3afw32bad1494c62cc24@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62-2-78-98.static.cablecom.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 98f36f41-0601-440e-acca-26c4efbf85a2 X-Archives-Hash: 972a35b781059d3bbf3e5a06b84188c1 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Are there any potential harms to the hardware / system in case one > tends to abuse (i.e. use more often than necessary) of this command? You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. Because of this, filesystem and/or applications might get corrupt (eg. think of a database, which was in the middle of writing to some of its tables). > It's so often so tempting to shut down your system fast. Yeah, it sure is :) Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list