On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:58, Christopher Lyon wrote: > I have a bunch of RH8.0 machines that are sitting in Telco closets and > was wondering if I am digging myself a hole with these things powering > on and off without using the shutdown command. Am I going to kill or > break something but basically just unplugging these machines?
If you use one of the journalled filesystems (EXT3, JFS, XFS) you might be okay, depending on how the machines are being used. If there are applications running that haven't saved their data, journalling doesn't help. IMO, you're asking for trouble. Why can't you shut them down remotely (using ssh), or at a specified time (from cron)? In fact, why shut them down at all? Or are you just asking about doing it one time? -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
