Halting diskless workstations before powering down

[Barry Margolin]

In article <1991May31.220151.6372 at Brahms.INSL.McGill.CA> albert at 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.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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