On Wednesday, 06/10/2009 at 02:01 EDT, Robert J McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > I am sorry I wasn't clear. VM and linux are communicating : > When I enter the CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command from MAINT linux begins > shutting down. A short time later vm receives the termination from linux > and writes the following message to the vm MAINT log : > HCPSIG2113I User ZORACLE2 has reported successful termination > From a vm standpoint everything appears to be working as designed. It > appears that linux sends the termination response to vm before it has > really completed it's (linux)shutdown. In linux's inittab we have > "shutdown -h" coded.
The HCPSIG2113I indicates that the guest is no longer running. Linux *has* completed shutdown and loaded a special WAIT PSW. If you want applications to terminate cleanly, then Linux shutdown scripts need to wait for the application to end. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
