> Well, this one takes longer. Just the foldingathome takes about 20
> seconds or more to shutdown. It can take over 60 seconds at times.
> That service for some reason has to completely shutdown before the
> others start to shutdown. The others will shutdown in parallel like I
> have set up. Then there is all the other services that have to stop.
> Quite literally, I only had seconds to shutdown since the P/S was
> stinking like a skunk. I just needed to umnount the file systems and
> power off as fast as possible. I didn't want to just pull the plug but
> I needed a shutdown that fast.

Hackint the shutdowns to background the shutdown
op and return is usually pretty simple -- don't know
why more app's don't do that by default.

'halt' will get you down with little typing if you
want to bypass the init scripts; so will "kill -TERM 1".
Add a 'sync' before either of them and you'll probably
be able to come up with minimal trouble.

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