Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-27 Thread Nick Laflamme
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

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-27 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel 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

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
Nick Laflamme wrote: 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. :-) The 'runlevel' command should tell you... I am not sure whether

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-27 Thread Post, Mark K
AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel Nick wrote: I know I've asked about this before on this list, and several of you have repeated the syntax for /etc/inittab, typically: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now Just looked at mine and it's

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-27 Thread Nick Laflamme
Should doesn't count. How many times have we heard, In theory, practice and theory agree. In reality, theory and practice differ? This is one of those times. :-) Rob van der Heij's warning bout YaST2-sshinstall was probably exactly on target: when I reran the install process today for my test

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-27 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
Laflamme Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel Should doesn't count. How many times have we heard, In theory, practice and theory agree. In reality, theory and practice differ? This is one of those

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-27 Thread Nick Laflamme
Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: On the original system, was there a line in inittab similar to the following? # The default runlevel is defined here id:3:initdefault: Yes, that was there. I still ended up in runlevel unknown. With no default runlevel, I'm surprised anything was working. In retrospect,

Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Nick Laflamme
I'm back for my monthly efforts to get SIGNAL SHUTDOWN support in a SLES8 image working under VM. In the month since I last beat my head against this particular wall, I've made sure this image has the latest and greatest patches on it. It's at SP 3 and some other fixes released by SuSE,

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Rich Smrcina
Your responses are correct and inittab looks OK (from memory)... Is it not working? The first time you will need to restart the init process. I don't recall the exact syntax, but it should be in the archive. On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:32, Nick Laflamme wrote: I'm back for my monthly efforts to

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread David Boyes
Is there any sort of verification tool for /etc/inittab to rule out any manner of stupid typos, bad assumptions, and other faults? IEHIBAL is pretty much it. You can compare it against the docs in 'man 5 inittab', but it's pretty much your gun, your foot. What kinds of log messages does one

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Post, Mark K
telinit q Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel Your responses are correct and inittab looks OK

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Scorch Burnet
I have an exec that issues the shutdown command and waits for a CP message. It works for me. I have the VM operator issue it prior to a VM roll and it seems to work ok. you should be getting a CP message HCPSIG2113I or HCPSIG2112I. I can send this EXEC if you like Nick Laflamme wrote: I'm

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Rich Smrcina
You can certainly issue individual SIGNAL SHUTDOWNs (manually or via an EXEC like yours), but VMs SHUTDOWN command can wait a designated amount of time (which is tailorable) to allow the Linux machines to shut down via the signal. On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 16:30, Scorch Burnet wrote: I have an exec

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
: Re: [LINUX-390] Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel Your responses are correct and inittab looks OK (from memory)... Is it not working? The first time you will need to restart the init process. I don't recall the exact syntax, but it should be in the archive. On Mon, 2004-04-26

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Rich Smrcina
forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel Your responses are correct and inittab looks OK (from memory)... Is it not working? The first time you will need to restart the init process. I don't recall the exact syntax, but it should be in the archive. On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:32, Nick Laflamme wrote

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Post, Mark K
: Monday, April 26, 2004 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel Do you also need in the /etc/zipl.conf kernel parameter line vmpoff=LOGOFF vmhalt=LOGOFF or do I just have that for historical reasons? What level of VM? Does CP Q SIGNALS show your

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Rich Smrcina
at that point, then you can take those parms out. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel Do you

Re: Monthly forehead bruising: inittab ctrlaltdel

2004-04-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
Nick wrote: I know I've asked about this before on this list, and several of you have repeated the syntax for /etc/inittab, typically: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now Just looked at mine and it's ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now Perhaps you are not in run levels 1