Luke Mewburn wrote:
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But I don't want to do a "halt -d". This causes a core dump which means that the filer may be down for about 10 mins. Is there a way of forcing a halt without using the -d switch (halt on its own just gives the CIFS error message again). I'm currently running 5.3.1D5.
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A suggestion which won't solve your problems, but may help the boot time: move savecore to the end of /etc/rc; it speeds up availability after a boot at the potential expense of corrupting your coredump.
My problem isn't with the time to do the savecore on reboot. This is relatively fast. But the generation of the coredump during the shutdown can take 10 mins. This is what I want to avoid.
Could I safely start the "halt -d" and then push the reset button?
Bruce
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