Hi all, We just noticed rather strange behaviour on one of our RAS servers after a remote shutdown. (slackware 8.0 + 2.4.17)
shutdown -h now as root from an ssh session resulted in the usual messages both to the session and console however we observed the following:- 1. The machine remained visible on the network and responded to pings so some of our monitoring systems such as WhatsUp would presumably still show it as healthy. 2. Console switching was possible but key input was ignored. 3. Messages from debug/messages were output to the console. 4. The machine continued to accept calls from ISDN but was unable to process them. Given the RAS hardware in this machine this indicated that the Kernel module was still processing interrupts correctly. I guess halted isn't *really* halted in the CPU halted sense ?????????? We will set up APM so it will in future do a power down and this wont be an issue but it was certainly unexpected (and unpleasant) behaviour for a Linux based RAS/router. Cheers -Rod -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
