levinson@vax.sonoma.edu
Date: 09/11/93


Subject: Re: Shutdown doesnt unmount
From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu
Date: 11 Sep 1993 10:43:31 -0800

In article <CD46to.J5v@inviso.com>, gilbert@inviso.com (Gilbert Callaghan) writes:
> 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.

Thanks for your information, Gilbert. I have had users from all over the world
telling me I needed utile14, but it has programs in it that are much older than
the ones I downloaded off of the ftp systems. For example, the shutdown
command has a date of last year, where the shutdown I got with my SLS package
is much newer.

I did create a /etc/brc, but did not set the permissions on it. I will try it
and get back to you on it.

  

>
> --
> Gilbert Callaghan
> gilbert@inviso.com

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