"Paul H. Christidis" wrote:
>
>      Is there a way after a reboot to determine if we are trying to recover
> from a system failure versus a reboot due to some system upgrade. (There may
> be additional tasks to perform in the first case).

This is a little bit like trying to ask a dead body: 'were you killed or
did you die for natural reasons ?'

The question to rather ask is: can we find out if the system was correctly
completely shutdown to SHUT 6 or not ?

Goetz.