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Old 01-10-2006, 04:51 PM  
NetRodent
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
What data? I have a unix machine about 3 feet from me, I can unplug it, fire it back up, and no data is going to be lost.. This isn't a windows machine man, it's a unix machine.

Yes, it should be shut down the correct way, but it won't fuck anything up.
You're obviously not running any servers that get written to frequently.

Try pulling the plug on a high traffic database server sometime.
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