Mary, I have the exact same problem with version 2.0, and tech
support says it's a known problem. The good news is, it's fixed
in version 3.2, the bad news is there isn't a patch for 2.0.
-- Brian
On Wed, 24 May 1995, Mary Aplin wrote:
> 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
>
-- Brian
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Received on Wed May 24 1995 - 11:49:57 NZST