Hines Daniel writes: > Thanks to all who replied with the profile exec for autologging the Linux > Guests and starting Linux. What is everyone using to shutdown a large > number of servers without signing onto each one. I've played around using > rexec but not sure if this is the best method ...
Post, Mark K writes: > Mike Kershaw of Marist College wrote a program that will "sit" on the VM > console of a guest and wait for the secondary operator to send it a > "shutdown" command. You can find it at > http://reason.marist.edu/patches/bootshell-1.3.cc. Malcolm Beattie came up > with a way to add an external interrupt handler to trigger the "ctlaltdel" > event in /etc/inittab. He described it at > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.19899 but I'm not aware of > anyone who has actually implemented it. You could be the first! :) I have actually written it and I use it (and so do others within IBM): it's only 64 lines of code (20 of them comments). Unfortunately, I haven't yet gone through the appropriate IBM internal processes to get code I write releasable outside IBM :-/. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Technical Consultant IBM EMEA Enterprise Server Group... ...from home, speaking only for myself
