Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!VM.UOGUELPH.CA!SOFPJF From: SOFPJF@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Emergency shutdown and NFS Message-ID: <9009241220.aa25217@VGR.BRL.MIL> Date: 24 Sep 90 17:09:54 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 We too have encountered this and other problems with shutting down the system. There have been times when I've tried one after the other: shutdown /etc/halt init 0 and they all fail. It's really maddening to have `init 0` just come back to the prompt and not do anything (yeah, I know it comes back to the prompt anyway, but then it shuts down in 5-15 secs. Mine didn't). I'm not exactly sure how I get into such a state, but I've seen it on both my PI and our 380. We need a fail-safe "slam my file-system down, and give me the monitor" command. In my mind this is what `init 0` should do. If I want to gracefully terminate all my NFS, & etc daemons, then I'll use shutdown. But if I want down NOW, I should have a way of doing it, fail-safe, and without trashing the disks. I even tried sync;sync;sync but the filesystems still came up dirty. /PJ SofPJF@VM.UoGuelph.Ca (Probably also reachable (until ?) at SOFPJF@UOGUELPH.BITNET) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who wanted to change this application to Pascal, anyway?