From: Steve F. <sf...@ih...> - 2002-02-21 23:00:43
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>> Is there a way to signal a UML to shutdown from the like when the >> power fails and the host's power-fail script runs. >> Or a way to send a CTRL-ALT-DELETE to a UML from the host with a >> script. > > Yeah, there are mconsole 'halt', 'reboot', and 'cad' commands, which do what > you think. Howard, aren't you asking about a proper shutdown? From the UML website, we see that the mconsole's halt and reboot commands do this: "These take no arguments. They shut the machine down immediately, with no syncing of disks and no clean shutdown of userspace. So, they are pretty close to crashing the machine." What's really needed is a way for the host to tell the UML that it needs to switch to runlevels 0 or 6. Steve |