In the future, some things that will help if you must powerdown cold... swapoff -a sync
I do not know if the swapoff -a helps anything or not. I do it all the same. :) But, does anyone know a way to umount / and so forth before powering off? On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 08:27:57AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No i tried init 1 and it just started another shutdown process... so in > total i had two dead shutdown processes :). I used the power off switch... > risky, but it worked. > > > > > > debian-user@lists.debian.org on 23/09/99 19:19:57 > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > cc: (bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic labs/64) > Subject: Re: killing dormant/dead processes > > > > > Can you init 1 or init 0? > > On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 03:26:17PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am trying to shutdown a server and it says it is already shutting > down... > i discovered a shutdown process but it seems to be dead and i > cannot kill > it off with kill -9. > > > > ie > > > > 993 ? D 0:00 sh /usr/local/bin/faxrunq > > 15546 ? D 0:00 shutdown -r 0 w > > 18153 ? D 0:00 sendfax > > 23480 ? D N 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendfax -v 33,5208215 f1. > > 24464 ? D 0:00 /sbin/shutdown -t1 -r now > > 6252 2 D 0:00 rlogin yumchar > > any thoughts? > > > > thanx > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > -- > Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ > Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into > your ~/.signature to help me spread! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
