[$] Changing Fedora's shutdown timeouts

On today's Fedora systems, a reboot cycle-for a kernel update,say-is normally a fairly quick affair, but that is not always true. Thesystem will wait for services to shut down cleanly and will wait for up to two minutesbefore killing a service and moving on. A recent proposal to change thedefault timeout to 15 seconds, while still allowing some services torequire more time, ran into more opposition than was perhaps anticipated.Not everyone was comfortable shortening the timeout period, though thedecision has now been made to reduce it, but not as far as was proposed.