Autzoo.1641 hacknews utzoo!henry Thu May 6 11:53:30 1982 shutdown mods The shutdown(1) program has been altered experimentally to send a "terminate" signal and wait 30 seconds for programs to clean up and die before it actually shuts things down. This (in principle) permits running programs to close down cleanly; in particular, in-progress network conversations will shut down in an orderly way. The major effect will be that shutdown will take noticeably longer.