From: Gilbert Callaghan (gilbert@inviso.com)
Date: 09/09/93 

From: gilbert@inviso.com (Gilbert Callaghan)
Subject: Re: Shutdown doesnt unmount
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 01:29:47 GMT

In article <1993Sep8.094234.1@vax.sonoma.edu> levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>
>Well, I got SLS 1.01, and I have since gone from .99pl9-6 all the way to
>.99pl12 without obtaining all of the support files. Like I said, if I use
>shutdown now and go single user and type umount -a, it works. If I just use
>shutdown -r now it doesnt unmount root.

Shutdown runs the script '/etc/brc' which actually does the job of umounting:

/etc/brc:

    #!/bin/sh
    echo "Unmounting Filesystems"
    umount -a

and make sure it's owned by root with perms 700.