Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: strange gentoo shutdown sequence

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 06:00:44PM +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
> >>well why is the shell inside my gnome-terminal killed (and restarted by 
> >>gnome-terminal over and over again) if i execute halt?
> >
> >Because halt also signals all processes, independently of init.   Look at
> >the top of /etc/init.d/halt.sh:
> >
> >| ebegin "Sending all processes the TERM signal"
> >| killall5 -15 &> /dev/null
> >| eend $?
> >| sleep 5
> >| ebegin "Sending all processes the KILL signal"
> >| killall5 -9 &> /dev/null
> >| eend $?
> 
> OK, but that doesn't make sense to me too.
> 
> I want to write a init-script to start/stop UML-machines. I wan't the 
> UMLs to be gracefully shutdown. I cannot take the risk of data-loss due 
> to an UML getting killed.
> 
> BTW: UML=UserModeLinux
> 
> 

Anything in the runlevel will be gracefully shut down via the init 
script's stop function (if it didn't, you'd see a whole lot of errors in 
the shutdown sequence)

halt is called after everything else and kills remaining processes.

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Jon Portnoy
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