I’m monitoring this with interest. If I issue a shutdown to the global zone on the server, will the zones have had the chance to do a graceful shutdown before the global zone shuts down?
Gareth > On 5 Jun 2016, at 06:47, John Croix <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for all of the cool suggestions. Looks like I have several > opportunities to explore. Since I have a RPi running dnsmasq and pound, I > might go with that approach (RPi sending shutdown command to the global zone > via ssh). I could cleanly shut the RPi down, too, which would be nice > considering that I've already had issues with the memory card and ungrateful > reboots. > > Regards, > John > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jun 3, 2016, at 10:40 PM, John Croix <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm currently sitting in the dark in my house without power, pondering the >> need for an automatic means to shutdown my SmartOS server. When power went >> off, I raced upstairs to manually shut it down prior to draining the UPS, >> and I'd like to avoid a repeat scenario. >> >> It seems like the best way to do this might be to have a dedicated LX zone >> that runs the APC UPS daemon software. I can use it to touch a file when >> required, and, in the global zone, monitor the file system for the presence >> of that file. When the file appears, a power off command is issued. I just >> need to be able to have the local zone access the UPS via USB connection. >> Access to the LX file system from the global zone for monitoring is >> obviously not an issue. >> >> In short, I need to find out how to do the following: >> Determine which device in the global zone the UPS is attached to via USB >> cable >> Pass the device down to a local zone (I assume via some zonecfg commands) >> Determine which device to point the daemon to in the local zone >> Can anybody provide some info concerning the above issues? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> John >> >> Sent from my iPad >> > >
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