David Boyes wrote:
Given that I seem to have that right and seem to be at a current-enough (too current?) level of SLES 8, what else do I look for?
I'm kind of puzzled what you're asking. Is it not working, or is it doing something weird?
I'll go with, "It's doing something weird."
At the end of the timeout period, the kernel logs the virtual machine off. However, the shutdown command has not run. That it logs itself off tells me that something is happening. That shutdown never runs tells me that something weird is happening (or something good isn't happening). That's what makes me suspect a syntax issue: the kernel is trying to do something, but it's getting lost along the way and not taking the path it should.
Mark's reference to "telinit q" wasn't directly relevant; I've re-booted this image several times after less-than-graceful responses to SIGNALs SHUTDOWN. However, that got me thinking about the runlevel, which, when I checked it, was "unknown." If I "init 3" and then test the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN, it works as expected.
So, my next puzzle is, what's with the "unknown" runlevel? Or, just how screwed up is this particular Linux image? Fortunately, it's my test image. I haven't rebuilt it in a few weeks; must be time to do so. :-)
-- db
Nick
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