shutdown

[Lyle McElhaney]

Several time now we have attempted to use shutdown to bring our 750 running
4.2 dow. This normally works as expected, but sometimes the shutdown just
seems to disappear. The task line is still in the ps -aux:

root   16954  0.0 0.4   53   21   co  I <  0:00 shutdown +5

but we never hear from it again. When we bring the system down with
/etc/halt, it finds that "some processes won't die". There is one
zombie in the ps listing...

Why does shutdown not?
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		Lyle McElhaney
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