Hello OSFfers --
I have an Alpha 3300 running OSFv2. I just brought it down for backups,
and something bizarre happened. I had issued the shutdown +3 command,
and it kinda just sat there for at least 5 minutes. The only message
that was displayed on the screen was the initial one stating that
shutdown was in 3 minutes. (I've noticed in the past that it would count
down the time -- 3 minutes, then 2 minutes, etc.)
I broke out of the sequence (ctrl c) looked at my processes, and saw that
I had 2 users with at least an hour of idle time. I had to kill their
processes then reissue the shutdown command in order to bring it down.
I haven't had to do this before. Is this normal is you have idle users?
I looked for an option for the shutdown command to get around this but
didn't see anything.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mary Aplin
Loyola University, New Orleans
Received on Wed May 24 1995 - 10:01:18 NZST