Re: Crash

[Lukas Eppler <debian@fear.ch>]

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote:

> At work, if I reboot my Solaris workstation, the "last" command reports
> something like
> reboot    system boot                   Fri Oct 23 09:54 
> ...
> but at home, with Debian 2.0, it simply states that my system has
> "crashed" at a specific time.

the 'halt' and 'reboot' commands are probably the hardcore method to bring
the system down. On some distributions (maybe debian too, don't want to
try out at the moment) 'sbin/shutdown -h now' goes into runlevel 0, goes
trough /etc/init.d/* stop, halts then kills the remaining processes. this
is the safe way, and would not 'crash'. I saw once that at the end of the
shutdown, a 'halt' or 'reboot' is executed at the very end, so on these
systems, typing 'halt' is like just pressing the power button.

try if your problem goes away by using 'shutdown -r now'.

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Lukas Eppler (godot)