From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23056 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 16:11:13 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 4 May 2004 16:11:13 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BL2Vk-0004ya-UR for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:11:12 +0000 Received: (qmail 31992 invoked by uid 50004); 4 May 2004 16:11:12 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 16913 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 16:11:11 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 18:00:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20040502173223.GA7160@linux1.home> <20040503162436.GA1938@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> <20040504153316.GB7040@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508a5ad2.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 X-Accept-Language: de, en In-Reply-To: <20040504153316.GB7040@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: strange gentoo shutdown sequence X-Archives-Salt: 353f1ee8-60c4-4ed4-b51c-6814db5397dd X-Archives-Hash: d97bb50a3d81f6eb7385cc87d485bb7e >>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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list