Is Sudo Shutdown Clean?
This is probably a no brainer, but I have not found the answer in the archives or in Google. I see many references to using sudo shudown -h in the case of a problem, but I want to know if it is "safe" to use it on a regular basis. Will it cleanly shut down all the running processes before it closes down the machine?
Here's some background. I manage a small network with a B&W G3 running Panther as the file server. We are running a clean install with nothing extra in the startup items, so only the default processes should be running.
I don't want to leave the machine running all night because it makes too much noise and because it uses more power than I want to waste. (I've already taken care of cron; it runs at dinner time when everyone is away from their computers.) Additionally, perhaps leftover from previous operating systems, I feel that restarting the machine occasionally is good.
I don't want to have to go over to the machine, turn on the monitor, and choose shutdown from the GUI at the end of the day. Logging in remotely and issuing sudo shutdown -h +1:00 leaves me enough time to log out and seems to shut down the machine quite nicely. I've tried it a few times without any problems. However, I don't know if I'm developing some sort of subtle corruption by doing this.
Thanks
Here's some background. I manage a small network with a B&W G3 running Panther as the file server. We are running a clean install with nothing extra in the startup items, so only the default processes should be running.
I don't want to leave the machine running all night because it makes too much noise and because it uses more power than I want to waste. (I've already taken care of cron; it runs at dinner time when everyone is away from their computers.) Additionally, perhaps leftover from previous operating systems, I feel that restarting the machine occasionally is good.
I don't want to have to go over to the machine, turn on the monitor, and choose shutdown from the GUI at the end of the day. Logging in remotely and issuing sudo shutdown -h +1:00 leaves me enough time to log out and seems to shut down the machine quite nicely. I've tried it a few times without any problems. However, I don't know if I'm developing some sort of subtle corruption by doing this.
Thanks
