I have an exec I run that runs through a table and sends the command to each linux.
'CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN ' linux ' WITHIN 60' On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Adam Thornton <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Robert J McCarthy wrote: > > I am trying to develop a shutdown procedure to cleanly shutdown my linux > guests, prior to shutting down vm. Reading the documentation in the > virtualization cookbook for SLES10 and the vm CP COMMANDS manual; I have > setup the following : > 1. In each linux guest's /etc/inittab; I have changed the shutdown -r to > shutdown -h > 2. In my autolog1 exec I have placed the following command: > CP SET SIGNAL SHUTDOWN 1200 ( To allow the guests 20 minutes to > respond) > Note: I have also entered the command manually > When I issue the shutdown, vm shuts down before most if not all linux > guests have responded or completed shutdown; always within a minute or two. > As a result I end up with file corruption in some linux guests after vm is > re-IPLed and the guests are brought back up. > Is there a better way to accomplish a clean linux shutdown. > Thank you, > Bob > > > Our SYSVINIT drop-in-replacement for a list-of-machines-in-autolog would do > the trick. It may be overkill. > > Adam > -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317
