albert@Brahms.INSL.McGill.Ca (Albert Pang) (06/01/91)
Due to recent modification of the electric system in our building, we have very frequent power transfers. (almost once every two weeks at some point) There are over 30+ servers and over 100+ diskless workstations in the building. Each time a scheduled power transfer occur, the system administration staff in different departments have to halt and power down all equipment. My question is, is it necessary to 'halt' or 'fasthalt' an inactive diskless workstation (e.g. SUN-SLC/NeXT) before powering down? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Albert Pang <albert@brahms.insl.mcgill.ca> Information Networks & Systems Lab McGill University
barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (06/02/91)
In article <1991May31.220151.6372@Brahms.INSL.McGill.CA> albert@Brahms.INSL.McGill.Ca (Albert Pang) writes: >My question is, is it necessary to 'halt' or 'fasthalt' an inactive >diskless workstation (e.g. SUN-SLC/NeXT) before powering down? The workstation itself doesn't care. However, it may be useful to some of the servers that it uses. You should use "shutdown", which will kill processes, close network connections, and unmount remote file systems. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar