There are some people experiencing problems with the scripts included
in the SysVinit-2.50 package. This is coming from a certain problem
with /bin/sh, that does not have the `kill' command as a builtin. It
is rumoured that some versions of bash (1.13.5?) have this problem if
invoked as `/bin/sh' rather than '/bin/bash'. To work around this, there
are two solutions:

1. Use the included `killall' command instead of `kill'. (See the file
   "Readme" in SysVinit-2.50.tgz for hints!)
2. OR apply the following patch in your /etc/rc.d directory, this fixes
   the problem for bash:

(As usual, cut this part and feed it to patch as "patch < cutted_part")
========================================================================
--- rc.halt.orig	Tue Feb 22 21:41:47 1994
+++ rc.halt	Tue Feb 22 21:43:13 1994
@@ -6,3 +6,3 @@
 #
-# Version:	@(#)/etc/rc.d/rc.halt	1.50	1994-01-15
+# Version:	@(#)/etc/rc.d/rc.halt	1.51	1994-02-22
 #
@@ -31,2 +31,3 @@
   # Kill all processes.
+  [ "${BASH+bash}" = bash ] && enable kill
   echo "Sending all processes the TERM signal.."
--- rc.single.orig	Tue Feb 22 21:41:56 1994
+++ rc.single	Tue Feb 22 21:42:52 1994
@@ -7,3 +7,3 @@
 #
-# Version:	@(#)/etc/rc.d/rc.single	1.50	1994-01-18
+# Version:	@(#)/etc/rc.d/rc.single	1.51	1994-02-22
 #
@@ -16,2 +16,3 @@
   # Kill all processes.
+  [ "${BASH+bash}" = bash ] && enable kill
   echo "Sending all processes the TERM signal.."
========================================================================

Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>