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On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 06:00:44PM +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> >>well why is the shell inside my gnome-terminal killed (and restarted by |
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> >>gnome-terminal over and over again) if i execute halt? |
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> >Because halt also signals all processes, independently of init. Look at |
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> >the top of /etc/init.d/halt.sh: |
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> >| ebegin "Sending all processes the TERM signal" |
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> >| killall5 -15 &> /dev/null |
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> >| eend $? |
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> >| sleep 5 |
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> >| ebegin "Sending all processes the KILL signal" |
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> >| killall5 -9 &> /dev/null |
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> >| eend $? |
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> OK, but that doesn't make sense to me too. |
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> I want to write a init-script to start/stop UML-machines. I wan't the |
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> UMLs to be gracefully shutdown. I cannot take the risk of data-loss due |
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> to an UML getting killed. |
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> BTW: UML=UserModeLinux |
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Anything in the runlevel will be gracefully shut down via the init |
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script's stop function (if it didn't, you'd see a whole lot of errors in |
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the shutdown sequence) |
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halt is called after everything else and kills remaining processes. |
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