From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 1 10: 3:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8323C14E3C for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 10:03:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1133.bossig.com [208.26.241.133]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 10:10:36 -0800 Message-ID: <386E416D.770658BE@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 10:03:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Shutodwn oreder sequencing info request (second try) References: <200001011725.JAA21247@netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stan Brown wrote: > > i am trying to set up my FreebSD 3.4 STABLE box to work with a ups. > > As a part of this I need to tell the UPS to shutdsown. Obviously this > must be _very late_ in the shutdown sequence. i have just found out by > expiremantation the /etc/rc.shutdow is not late enough :-( (do you now > how long it takes to fsck a 13G disk ?). > > Where in the shutdown sequence should I add this? The disks need to be > dismounted, and / avaialble as read only at this point in time. You have more problems than that because your date is coming up year 100. Kent > > Thanks. > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- > Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! > Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer > (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message