I posted a message recently, telling you about problems I had when I used
the command "shutdown -r +xxx". I told you that my KILL scripts were not
executed.
That was a problem from my side. The DEC documentation says that in order to
use that command, the system should be in single-user mode. This can be done
with the command "shutdown +xxx" which DOES execute the kill scripts. I
tried that and my kill scripts were run.
Now for the fun part. A couple of days ago, I rebuilt a new kernel and
decided to shutdown and reboot the system after having copied the new
kernel. I issued the "shutdown now" command and my system stepped down to
run level 0 and executed the appropriate KILL scripts (rc scripts I mean)
after the following message,
#INIT SINGLE-USER
I said to myself, "Let`s reboot the system now" and issued the "shutdown -r
now" command. Here's what I got:
Shutdown at 09:40 (in 0 minutes) [pid 831]
shutdown: /var/adm/utmp: No such file or directory
And I'v got no shutdown and/or reboot. I tried the same commands on 2 others
servers running DU 3.2D-2 and got the same results.
Received on Tue Jul 09 1996 - 17:39:40 NZST