I figured out part of the reason for the misbehavior described below is that the "native" shutdown command is the "wrong" binary or at least it's a buggy version of the "right" binary. That is, there are multiple shutdown commands on the system. The "correct" shutdown command is actually /usr/ucb/shutdown whereas simply executing "shutdown" executes /usr/sbin/shutdown.
In fact, there are whole directories of duplicated commands. For example, try "ps". This will execute /usr/bin/ps, but that's not the same as the command in /usr/ucb/i86/ps. There are actually five ps commands! The duplicated commands are in /usr/ucb and in the subdirectories of /usr/ucb/i86 and /usr/ucb/amd64. Not all the commands are duplicated. Some are symlinks to commands in the normal (i.e., Linux) locations. I'm assuming this situation results from the addition of the GNU application userland, but that it is resulting in confusion. >The shutdown command doesn't seem to work. I get a complaint from RPC > >RPC: Program not registered. > >Then it apparently su's to root, switches to single user mode. If I >then try again to shutdown, I get a different complaint from RPC > >RPC: Rpcbind failure -- RPC: Unable to receive > >and the command eventually seems to give up. -- Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University _______________________________________________ gnusol-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users
