On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote:
>
> >Before you power off the machine, login as root and do
> >
> >shutdown -h now
> >
>
> This is exactly what I do. However, one of the shutdown messages,
> immediately before "System halted" is
>
> On the next boot fsck will be FORCED.
>
> Sound *as if* something is wrong although next boot-up is always OK. Is
> there anything wrong or am I being paranoid??
>
> TIA,
> Shaggy
> Bangkok, Thailand
>
>
You have slackware, right? I expected to find that message in the
RedHat scripts, which I don't much care for, but instead I found it in
my own. It appears to be a hangover from an older method of controlling
startup fsck: before umount marked the fs itself clean and fsck tested
it, shutdown -f would create the file /etc/fastboot to indicate to
startup that the system had been shut down. Fastboot is no longer used
in the startup scripts, but is tested in /etc/rc.d/rc.6, which issues
that message if it doesn't exist.
To make the message go away, it seems easiest to do:
cp /dev/null /etc/fastboot
or you could rip it out of rc.6.
Lawson
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