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authorKarel Zak2006-12-07 00:25:33 +0100
committerKarel Zak2006-12-07 00:25:33 +0100
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
-.TH SHUTDOWN 8 "20 November 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SHUTDOWN 8 "20 November 1993" "Linux 1.2" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
shutdown \- close down the system
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ notifies all users, tells
not to spawn more
.BR getty (8)'s,
writes the shutdown time into the
-.I /var/adm/wtmp
+.I /var/log/wtmp
file, kills all other processes on the system,
.BR sync (2)'s,
unmounts all the disks,
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ detects (and deletes).
.I /fastboot
.I /etc/singleboot
.I /etc/nologin
-.I /var/adm/wtmp
+.I /var/log/wtmp
.fi
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR umount (8),
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ Unlike the BSD
.BR shutdown ,
users are notified of shutdown only once or twice, instead of many times,
and at shorter and shorter intervals as "apocalypse approaches."
+Some would construe this as a feature.
.SH AUTHOR
-poe@daimi.aau.dk
+Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk)
.br
Modified by jrs@world.std.com