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From: dce@mips.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Shutdown loudness wrt NFS
Message-ID: <262@quacky.mips.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 18:19:23 EST
Article-I.D.: quacky.262
Posted: Tue Apr  7 18:19:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 03:17:59 EST
Reply-To: dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott)
Distribution: world
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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We brought up NFS a couple of months ago, and due to popular demand
have every machine's disks available from every other machine (you
say '/n/{machine}/...' to get to the other machine's files).

Whenever we shut down a machine, messages are sent out to everyone
via rwall, and I've had a number of complaints about this being
disruptive to people.

Has anyone else had this problem and done anything about it?

Here are a couple of ideas:

	1. Add an option to shutdown to tell it not to send messages
	   out to the other machines (we have this one for use with
	   machines that bounce a lot, but people are complaining
	   about machines that are used to serve manual pages, games,
	   and other stuff).

	2. Decrease the frequency of shutdown messages sent to remote
	   machines (say, every other set of messages could go to
	   remote machines).

	3. Instead of having shutdown talk to rwalld, have it talk to
	   rshutdownd, which would be set up to print nice shutdown
	   messages and be user-programmable.

	4. Change rwalld to be programmable on a per-user basis such
	   that messages can be filtered.

-- 
David Elliott		{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!dce