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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!isi.edu!allard From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: how to shutdown -todos? Message-ID: <22231@venera.isi.edu> Date: 18 Aug 92 23:17:26 GMT Sender: news@isi.edu Reply-To: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) Distribution: world Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute Lines: 19 Keywords: shutdown, booting I notice two shutdown programs. /usr/distbin/shutdown and /sbin/shutdown. The distbin/ one understands -todos, the sbin/ one does not. Why two shutdown programs? What's the difference? Why doesn't the sbin/ one understand -todos? When I do /sbin/shutdown, it does a bunch of stuff and leaves me at the # prompt. Then, if I execute it again, it does some more stuff and leaves me at login:. Man shutdown does not really tell me enough to understand this behaviour. What's going on? The last time I used distbin/shutdown -todos, it complained: "can't make dos bootable". Why not? Dennis G. Allard internet: allard@isi.edu tel: 310-399-4740