[MiNT] clean shutdown

[Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarenskeen@zonnet.nl>]

Hi,

I'm running an uptodate freemint-1.16-cur/xaaes/teradesk combination on 
both my Falcon030/CT2b and Aranym boxes. I'm not happy with the many 
choices I have to do a shutdown: I can select an item in the Teradesk 
menu, there is a "quit XaAES" in the XaAES menu, there is the XaAES 
taskmanager, and I can use the "shutdown" command in a Toswin2 window, or 
in the console. And there are the separate shutdown apps that come with 
N_AES and MyAES. I would like to see one central, clean and properly 
working shutdown method.

Not only I find all this ugly and confusing. A more serious problem is 
that not all of these methods work cleanly. I have had to use the poweroff 
button on my computer and run the ext2 filesystemcheck more than I want 
to.

Especially my aranym system is giving problems. I have a setup where I 
use an entry in /etc/ttytab to start in a mgetty console. Then I start 
XaAES from there. I have copied xaloader.prg to /usr/bin/ and renamed it 
as /usr/bin/xaaes. I type "xaaes" in the console and there I go.

But I have only found one way to quit from the XaAES back into the login 
console: I have to select the "reboot" in the Taskmanager. And if I want 
to shutdown, I have to do the same. Then, from the login console I type 
"shutdown" to shutdown cleanly. All the other available shutdown methods 
do not work cleanly on my Aranym box.

(I have also tried the Xa-My-AES diskimage. This setup uses gemhalt.prg 
for shutdown. Works great. But I prefer my own setup.)


Martin Tarenskeen