I wrote:
> I am trying to get oracle and PeopleSoft to shutdown as part of the normal
> system shutdown and it does not appear to work. I created a script that
> calls the proper shutdowns and put it in /sbin/init.d and then created S
and
> K links in rc2.d and rc3.d. The startup in rc3.d works fine but the
system
> never executes the shutdown portion in rc2.d. Running it manually through
> the links and issuing the start or stop arguments works fine. When I do a
> shutdown -r now, the system immediately goes down and I can't see where it
> runs anything in rc2.d. What am I missing? Currently the way I got it to
> work was to put a wrapper script around the /sbin/shutdown executable that
> shuts down the applications and then calls the real shutdown but this
seems
> kludgy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
Summary:
I guess I am the only one who didn't read the shutdown manpage. My
apologies. However I got some conflicting answers, some suggesting to put
the links in rc2, and rc0. It appears that Dr. Blinn summed it up when he
wrote:
What you have observed is the actual behavior of the "shutdown" command --
and
it's stated explicitly by the shutdown reference page, where it says:
Alternatively, if you invoke shutdown with the -r, -h, or -k flag, the
com-
mand executes the reboot command or the halt command, or avoids shutting
the system down. Note that the -h and -r flags use a broadcast kill
signal
and not the run level transition scripts. To use the run level transition
scripts, execute the shutdown command without the -h or -r flag. This
will
bring the system down to single user mode. From single user mode, execute
shutdown with the -h or -r flag. Alternatively, you can execute init 0
which will bring the system from level 3 to the console prompt.
My problem is I want to be able to do unattended reboots and it is not
feasible to shutdown to single user and then do an init. I created a
wrapper script that replaces and calls /sbin/shutdown that shuts down my
applications and I guess this will have to do. Not pretty, but it gets the
job done. Many thanks to the dozens of people who replied.
Roger Leonard
Received on Mon Feb 22 1999 - 17:16:07 NZDT