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Re: killing dormant/dead processes



On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:55:09PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> :) But, does anyone know a way to umount / and so forth before powering off?

I would assume this is not pssible since at least one process always
uses / or a directory below.


If you look at your /etc/init.d/umountfs script, you can see that / is
_not_ unmounted, but mounted readonly.

here's a part of script from my slink system:


<...>
# Write a reboot record to /var/log/wtmp before unmounting
halt -w

echo -n "Deactivating swap... "
swapoff -a
echo "done."

echo -n "Unmounting file systems... "
umount -a -r
echo "done."

mount -n -o remount,ro /

-eof-



After unmounting/mounting ro, the raid devices are shut down and then
either "halt -d -f -i -p" or "reboot -d -f -i" is executed.

man halt/reboot/poweroff:
<...>
       -d     Don't  write  the  wtmp record. The -n flag implies
              -d.

       -f     Force halt or reboot, don't call shutdown(8).

       -i     Shut down all network interfaces just  before  halt
              or reboot.

       -p     When halting the system, do a poweroff. This is the
              default when halt is called as poweroff.
<...>



HTH
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