Jeremy Katz (katzj@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > Most services don't need any magic to shutdown "properly". Why stop ssh > via the initscript when all it's going to do is kill the process if you > have a killall happening not long afterward. Exactly... what needs to be done here is tagging of all the scripts/services that can be shut down cleanly, then some quick changes to /etc/rc should cut about half the time out of shutdown (based on some tests I ran ~10 months ago or so.) Bill