Caution If your system has its o wn disk and you are running a local

operating system, do not turn o￿ po wer to your system without

 

￿rst shutting down the operating system softw are according to

 

the procedure in this c hapter, \Shutting Down Your System".

 

Turning o￿ the power for your stand-alone system without ￿rst

 

doing the shutdown procedure ma y result in damage to data on

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your disk. Always execute the shut-down process to completion

 

￿rst.

 

If you are running your system as a node in a cluster (without

 

a ￿le system disk) y ou can, in any case, shut down your system

 

by turning o￿ the po wer after you have properly closed ￿les

 

and terminated processes. If y ou have a mounted ￿le system

 

disk, you must become root and perform the procedure

 

in \Shutting Down Your System", or ha ve your system

 

administrator do so. Y ou can run shutdown without being root

 

by being listed in the ￿le /etc/shutdown.allow . See System

 

Administration Tasks for details.

 

 

 

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