Dr A V Le Blanc wrote: > >The problem I have is that the attempt to shutdown AFS fails if >it is still in use, and it can't be umounted. If I can manage to >umount /afs, the shutdown will proceed; otherwise I need to go >to the console and use the magic alt-sysrq sequences to umount, >sync, and reboot. That doesn't scale very well when you've got ~1000 computers to maintain :) Dave