----- Original Message ----- > From: "Itamar Heim" <[email protected]> > To: "Michal Skrivanek" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Gal Hammer" <[email protected]>, [email protected], "Simon Grinberg" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:19:25 AM > Subject: Re: [Users] forced shutdown with client agent > > On 04/22/2013 01:59 PM, Michal Skrivanek wrote: > >> > > >> >----- Original Message ----- > >>> >>From: "Michal Skrivanek"<[email protected]> > >>> >>To:[email protected], "Thomas Scofield"<[email protected]>, "Vinzenz > >>> >>Feenstra"<[email protected]>, "Barak > >>> >>Azulay"<[email protected]>, "Gal Hammer"<[email protected]> > >>> >>Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 11:48:18 AM > >>> >>Subject: Re: [Users] forced shutdown with client agent > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >>On Apr 20, 2013, at 22:42 , Itamar Heim<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >> > >>>> >>>On 03/29/2013 04:58 AM, Thomas Scofield wrote: > >>>>> >>>>I have run into a scenario after installing the client agent. If > >>>>> >>>>a VM > >>>>> >>>>is shutdown, the client agent calls the shutdown command with a 1 > >>>>> >>>>minute > >>>>> >>>>timeout. > >>>>> >>>> > >>>>> >>>>Dummy-2::INFO::2013-03-28 > >>>>> >>>>14:05:21,892::vdsAgentLogic::138::root::Shutting down (timeout = > >>>>> >>>>30, > >>>>> >>>>message = 'System Administrator has initiated shutdown of this > >>>>> >>>>Virtual > >>>>> >>>>Machine. Virtual Machine is shutting down.' > >>>>> >>>> > >>>>> >>>>Since the shutdown command is called with time parameter the VM > >>>>> >>>>sets the > >>>>> >>>>/etc/nologin file. When the VM is forced down the /etc/nologin > >>>>> >>>>file is > >>>>> >>>>not cleared and when it comes back up only root can login until > >>>>> >>>>the > >>>>> >>>>/etc/nologin file is cleared. > >>>> >>> > >>>> >>>hmmm, Vinzenz - should guest agent clear that on guest startup, if > >>>> >>>guest agent set this at shutdown? > >>>> >>> > >>>>> >>>> > >>>>> >>>>Is their some some reason the shutdown time is set to 30 seconds > >>>>> >>>>(rounded up to 1 minute in the code)? Are there any know issues > >>>>> >>>>with > >>>>> >>>>setting this to 0? > >>> >>I wouldn't mind changing this to 0 by default if there are no > >>> >>objections. > >>> >>Barak, Gal, what do you think? Do you see any strong reason for > >>> >>keeping a grace period? > >> > > >> >The idea was to allow a logged in user to orderly close his work right? > >> >For that I'm not sure that even 30 seconds is enough. > > For that typically sysadmins use 5 or 10 minutes. 30s is worthless, no one > > would be able to react that fast…so to me this is the same as initiating > > shutdown right away. It's graceful anyway and all common apps would save > > the workspace on SIGTERM anyway. Well, does it even do anything on > > Windows?
i think its like doing a clean shutdown from within the guest > > That's why I'd vote for 0. And keep is configurable in case you want to use > > it, sure. > > > > do we allow users to cancel the shutdown? i think 'shutdown -a' should work on windows, no? > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
