Re: [OSR-devel] killall and init scripts

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 12:07:11 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have GlusterFS OSR working and I'll be sending a patch when I have done a
> bit more testing including rebuilding a fresh system from scratch to test
> my notes/documentation which I'll also be submitting.
Sounds great. I'll be happy to bring this upstream.
>
> There is a minor problem, however. On my previous cluster, I appear to have
> a modified halt init script (RHEL5). This has been changed to exclude
> certain processes from getting killed to prevent the root FS from
> disappearing half way through the shutdown sequence. What package provides
> this? The rpm database only listed the RHEL supplied package, but the file
> says it's an OSR patched file. So where does it come from? The only
> difference between the old and new systems is that one is IA32 and the
> other x86-64. Could there be a packaging error on the 64-bit version that
> didn't include the modified halt script or something like that?
>
> Either way, I copied the halt script across and added glusterfs to the list
> of things to not kill (-x parameter), but this didn't appear to make any
> difference. The man page for killall/killall5 on RHEL5 doesn't appear to
> list the -x option (although I did find a reference to this parameter being
> added in Debian in 2006). Is this known to work on RHEL/CentOS 5, or is
> there a modified killall required for this distro?
Normally this binary that does this killing is the rpm SysVinit-comoonics  
found at 
http://download.atix.de/yum/comoonics/redhat-el5/productive/x86_64/RPMS/. 
This provides a new killall found at /usr/comoonics/sbin. This is called by 
halt and accepts the -x as option.

Let me know if this is enough information.

Thanks Marc.

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Gruss / Regards,

Marc Grimme
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