From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 11 09:23:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03053 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 09:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk (csubl@nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk [137.205.148.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03048 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 09:23:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Mr M P Searle Message-Id: <13277.199705111623@nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Received: by nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk id RAA13277; Sun, 11 May 1997 17:23:25 +0100 (BST) Subject: shutdown To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 17:23:15 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Would it break anything if the X server was kept running while shutting down? (Nothing else, just that one process. The root window is set before starting 'halt' - and maybe set again after the 5 seconds.) Michael, who has too much free time...