starlan rfs & powerdown

[michael.rubin]

In article <9739 at chinet.chi.il.us> les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>When running RFS on 3B2's and 386's with starlan it is necessary
>to use "init 2"  to turn off RFS before going to any other state.
>The network listener is killed immediately when you go to
>states other than 2 or 3.  If you are in state 3 (normal networking)
>and attempt to go directly to any state other than 2, the
>effort to gracefully take down the RFS links results in hanging
>the system since the listener is already gone.  Is there some
>way to avoid this?
>
>Les Mikesell

It appears to be admdaemon rather than listen that causes RFS to hang.
Put all possible init states (0123456) in the inittab entry for admdaemon,
and if you're really going to single-user mode, kill admdaemon manually
once you get there.

It should be fixed in SVR4.

--Mike Rubin