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From: augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD or LINUX?
Keywords: n
Message-ID: <1992Nov17.045443.20013@cs.chalmers.se>
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:54:43 GMT
References: <Nov.2.20.33.38.1992.18690@remus.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov4.052106.29266@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Nov4.131541.15661@prism.poly.edu>
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In article <1992Nov4.131541.15661@prism.poly.edu> kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) writes:
>Yes.  I had the problem with the fsck also.  It looks like fsck exits
>before the system is rebooted (after fsck modifies the root fs).  This
>allows the rc scripts to continue, and a sync ends up being done. This flushes
>the bad buffers back to disk, writing over the fixes made by fsck (using the
>raw partition).  I haven't really had a chance to check this out yet.
Add the line
	trap : 15
at the start of /etc/rc to fix the problem.  reboot send SIGTERM to all
processes and it is not ignored by default by the shell.  (One one the 58
patches caused this behaviour.)

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	-- Lennart Augustsson
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