On November 28, 2003 11:31 am, Roger Beever wrote: > Hi. > I need to delay the last part of the shutdown process to make sure the > system has finished writing to disk and unmounting etc. > How would I go about that please. Hi Roger, have a look at the -t option for shutdown. It may be what your after as it will pause between kill & changing runlevels.You may also want to sync the discs first, like wrapping "sync;sync;telinit 6" or something like that. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list