That reminds me of the "stopped firewall" project (freshmeat I think).
Anyway, it sounds like you are missing some Knn simlinks in the shutdown
sequence.
Possibly what is happening is you are still running the network process(es).
Just check that there is a Knn for each Snn (and that it does do something).

As init will still be running if there is a process running, you will still
have interrupts and a scheduler running.

If it's X86 architecture you might also have a look at the power management
(BIOS) settings and check that it can be shut down that way.

Cheers,

Jill.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 1 March 2002 9:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] Strange shutdown -h now behaviour


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




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