Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!tank!shamash!com50!quest!sheldon
From: sheldon@quest.UUCP (Scott S. Bertilson)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: /etc/shutdown
Summary: works for me
Message-ID: <3799@quest.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 01:18:17 GMT
References: <8014@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: sheldon@quest.UUCP (Scott S. Bertilson)
Distribution: na
Organization: Quest Research Inc., Burnsville, MN
Lines: 23


  I'm running 3.5 and 3.51 (2 machines).  Both shut down and reboot
cleanly.  I think the speed of shutdown is due to the fact that there
aren't many daemons running and that it isn't V.3 with it's fancier
scheme of numerous scripts to start/stop daemon processes.  On
3.51, "/etc/profile" contains code to complete the shutdown which
includes a "killall" to zap all processes on the system.
  In addition, I've actually modified my "shutdown" script to
create a "/fastboot" which is noticed and removed by "/etc/rc"
to bypass the "fsck".  I've been running this way for more than
a year and a half without problems...running periodic "fsck"s which
come up clean.  Notice that the file is only created on a clean
shutdown...not on a crash.
  The mod to "/etc/rc" is to change:
	/etc/fsck -pq
to
	rm /fastboot 2>/dev/null || /etc/fsck -pq
The system still claims to be performing a file system check, but
doesn't actually do it...
-- 

Scott S. Bertilson   ...uunet!rosevax!rose3!quest!sheldon
			scott@poincare.geom.umn.edu