Pat Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been seeing my AIX 3.2 machines "crazy eight" when I do a
> "shutdown -r"....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Someone at IBM AWD reported a similar problem in DFS (AFS 4), which was
> eventually traced to the fact that AIX unmounts the disks before trying
> to shutdown the AFSD daemons....
To avoid this problem, I *never* use /etc/shutdown.
Instead, I always use either "halt" or "reboot" after syncing.
If you're skittish about this, you can shut most everything down
(except the cache manager, of course) with "/etc/tcp.clean", then
"killall -", then perform the halt or reboot.
Steve
