Have you updated each Linux guest so that they are registered to receive and respond to the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN service? Check your Linux distribution for the proper means to register for the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN service, and how to respond appropriately.
Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Robert J McCarthy" <[email protected]> Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <[email protected]> 06/03/2009 12:43 PM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Clean Linux Guest Shutdown 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 The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.
