wspc@MAPLE.NIS.NET (World Scientific Publishing US Office) said:

> At 9:15 PM 7/16/96, Dan.McMahill@sciatl.com wrote:
>> I have been simply using "halt".  This syncs disks and turns
>> my IIci off.  Am I doing something even worse?  (Sorry for the
>> simple question, but it seems that there are others as confused
>> as I).
>> 
>         What does "syncs disks" mean?

It does a call to sync().

>         BTW I was asking if there is any difference between
>         "shutdown -h now" and "halt", and I have heard nothing
>         back yet.

The syslog message.  Shutdown does its own sysloging, then calls "halt
-l".  You can check the man pages or the source code for more info.

	suki

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