On 03/19/2013 01:55 PM, Craig White wrote: > having the commands in an external script would fork a new process outside of the inittab so if it were me, I would simply join the commands to run as one within the inittab i.e.. > > /usr/bin/net rpc SHUTDOWN -C \ > "System shutting down NOW due to power failure" \ > -f -I 172.19.23.120 \ > -U <myusername>%<mypassword> && \ > /sbin/shutdown -f -h +5 \ > "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" For the love of god, don't do that! Using "&&," if the Windows host isn't available, and "net" exits with an error code, the local system won't be instructed to shut down.