Re: [TCLUG:9281] Lost Linux Password

[Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>]

> save that, and do "sync; sync; sync; halt"
> 
> after that, run 
> sync; sync; sync
> (just for fun)
> 
> and then 
> mount -o remount,ro /
> 
> then run halt.. that should drop the system as nicely as possible


I'm curious.  Why do you do all that, when 'shutdown -r now' is available?
I'm looking at the man page for halt and it seems to say that calling halt
directly may not be safe, depending on which version of init you're using.

Chris