S.J. Borrill wrote:

> Question 2
> ==========
> 
> Why doesn't shutdown work properly from a shell script? It kills the
> script
> and starts the machine shutting down, but doesn't kill the shell process
> itself. This can leave the machine in a limbo state.

Would it help if you did 'exec shutdown' from the script? Maybe then the
controling shell will actually be replaced by shutdown. Just a
thought...

	N.