Re: Killing Shutdown

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From: Mike Holland
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 00:00

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Andrew Mather wrote:
> 
> G'day All,
> 
> This may be a stupid question, but is there another  way to kill a
> running shutdown ?
> 
> Following a system crash, something seems to have gone awry.  Now,
> when I run my Slackware 3.0 system and try to shut it down nicely, I
> get "Shutdown already running ".

I had that problem. There was a lock file lying around - something
like "/tmp/shutdown.pid".  Try "locate \*.pid" to find it, then delete
it. The shutdown command needs improving.

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