Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!killer!wnp
From: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: /etc/shutdown
Message-ID: <8014@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 5 May 89 12:18:37 GMT
Reply-To: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
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Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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Having shut down my machine last night because of a thunderstorm overhead,
I noticed again that the /etc/shutdown  procedure on my UNIX-PC is about
ten times as fast as on any other UNIX system I have ever seen.

At the same time, every time I reboot the machine after a shutdown, it fails
fsck the first time round.

On all other systems I have seen, as a rule, if the system was shut down 
properly, it would pass fsck the first time; it would fail only if either it
was simple powered down or reset without running shutdown, or if there were
serious problems with the file system.

I suspect that this is caused by the fact that the UNIX-PC /etc/shutdown
makes no attempt to kill running processes before syncing the system for
the last time, thus the system goes down with open files, etc.

Does anybody have a customized /etc/shutdown which cleans up properly, and
causes the system to reboot with the filesystem in good condition?

Still trying to convert this machine into a real UNIX environment,

Wolf
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