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Sysadmin shut down server, it went ‘Clunk!’ but the app kept running

Smoking Man
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Re: shutdown silliness

Ahh, in the good old days [tm] on "my" systems that was "CTRL-B RS" or "CTRL-B TC".

Nowadays it's a "echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger"

Or as I like to call the procedure: "take the system to a known state."

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