curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:

|There's a shutdown program distributed, but it doesn't seem
|real flexible; it waits a couple minutes.
|
You can make it shutdown immediately if you use "shutdown now".
It only takes 10 seconds or so that way.

|A related question: is Linux fsck reliable?  That is,
|after a power failure am I always guaranteed that fsck
|will fix the damage?

I wasn't aware that SunOS's fsck guaranteed to fix damaged data on disks.
(My workstation uses SunOS.  It's the only other unix I know of.)
Then again I'm not fully conversant with fsck's capabilities.