On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 19:58 -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> Hello all...
>
> So I'm reading an article, and it mentions how using the shutdown
> command you can let all the people on your system know that you're going
> to shutdown...but my question is: how many people really have multiple
> users on their system doing stuff that they need to save, clean up,
> whatever? I keep seeing the theory, but where's the practice?
>
I administer multiple systems with a couple of hundred users regularly
logged in at a time. I usually give a courtesy wall command at ten and
five minutes before conducting maintenance or shutting down the server.
In these particular systems, the software is provided by a server and
end users work via thin clients. When the thin clients are on different
floors of a large building or located in a couple of buildings, sending
a message to save your work is essential to the users.
In stand alone machines, with which you are most like familiar given the
nature of your post, it might seem ridiculous to warn yourself of your
impending system shutdown.
The Logan
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