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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (217)	4/5/1999 4:38:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 484

logout is like halt as the flu is like death. It only feels that way to the person concerned. No Johnny, logging out is nothing like the halt. halting is something you must do as root. this is because it is a multi user system and you are acting as your own petty sysadmin. halting should give you a sense of power. it should feel good. something like after you kill your first jaywalker. after you halt the system you should look off the distance with a slit eyed look like Clint Eastwood and breathe words. "man is great. I am greater." now having said that, and it should now be perfectly clear that you must shutdown the system in an orderly manner just as it said in the first reading of the manual, the words of which, by now, which you have forgotten. it is, however important to note also that all programs should be closed before you do this, particularly netscape as it/they may have problems of their own on shutdown, particularly if it not orderly and they have the open file problem. EC<:-}

To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (217)	4/5/1999 4:52:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 484

I not that you have no "home" partition. I know this is not what is recommended by the Linux people. It is a good idea to keep every user's files separate in its own directory/partition. This way important files have the least chance of corruptedness if the system is rebuilt and backup or mirroringis easier. As a matter of fact it is recommended that most stuff go on the home partition and the root partition be the small one. I am not the expert on this but you really should read some literature on this. there is plenty available and on the net in the LUGS or linus user's groups. I still am mist a fyed as to your need to be hdc and hdc5 at that. Can you tell me the physical layout of your computer? Are you on the third physical drive with Linux and in the 5th partition?

To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (217)	4/5/1999 11:52:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Respond to of 484

The results of 'cat /etc/fstab' is useful, but it won't necessarily tell us what your partitions are. It only tells us what your linux partition is configured to think the partitions are. It might be more useful if you post the outputs of the following commands: 1) fdisk -l 2) cat /etc/lilo.conf 3) ls -l /dev/cdrom This will tell us: 1) What your actual partitions are (run as root) 2) What your boot manager is configured to use. 3) If your cdrom link actually points to the real CDROM device. And as E already chastised you for, you must run either 'halt' or 'shutdown -h' to properly shutdown your machine before powering it off. (must run as root) Also, you can use 'shutdown -r' to have it reboot.