I get the desired effect and the nice message without the vmpoff as well. On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 16:12, Malcolm Beattie wrote: > Post, Mark K writes: > > Depending on what version of z/VM and Linux you're running, updating > > /etc/inittab to have something like this: > > # What to do at the "Three Finger Salute". > > ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -r now > > Change that "-r" (meaning "reboot") into "-h" (meaning "halt") > so that the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN magic described elsewhere in this > thread behaves as expected. For cleanliness, it's also good to > include "vmpoff=LOGOFF" into the kernel parmline so that when the > guest finishes shutting down and does a "halt -p" (a "power-off" > halt), the kernel will do a "CP LOGOFF". This logs the guest off; > CP then knows that the guest has finished its signal shutdown > processing cleanly and will log a nice message to say so. > > [The vmpoff assumes that your distribution uses a "halt -p" in its > shutdown scripts, as SLES does. If your distribution ends up doing > a "halt" without the -p then the relevant parmline addition would > be "vmhalt=LOGOFF". I usually add both...belt and braces.] > > --Malcolm > > -- > Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Linux Technical Consultant > IBM EMEA Enterprise Server Group... > ...from home, speaking only for myself > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Rich Smrcina illustro Systems International, LLC --- See The Light--- Visit www.illustro.com to experience: z/Web-Host -- Easy Web-enabling for your Mainframe z/XML-Host -- Easy XML Enablement for your Mainframe
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