> What "colorful" things do you see in a RedHat shutdown? All I ever
> see, even when shutting down from X is line after line telling what
> is happening in plain text on a console. X goes down almost
> immediately.
>
> Not saying it is particularly fast but I don't see "colorful things".
Killing the X server and halting the system are two different things.
Redhat6.0 added some eye candy to the RC scripts, so you get a green [OK],
or a red [FAILED] (or something like that) as an indicator. Displaying
color certainly doesn't take any longer that displaying in black and
white, so that doesn't have anything to do with it... It just takes a long
time to let the daemons and such exit gracefully.
Chad
