Re: halted system still working as router.

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:48:24 +0000

miquels@cistron.nl said:
> Newer versions of sysvinit solved this. halt(1) has a flag that tells
> it to shutdown all network interfaces before halting [-i]. Make sure
> your shutdown script calls "halt -i" (or even "halt -i -p"). This is
> the default in Debian 2.0, I don't know about RedHat.

Then later versions of the kernel broke it again.

New 2.1 kernels will hang as soon as init exits, and not even let you sync and
unmount the disks.

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