Re: [uml-user] Shutdown question

[Bill D. <bdu...@be...>]

Jeff Dike said:
> joh...@jb... said:
>> Is it sufficient to put something like "uml_mcontrol uml_name halt" into my
>> /etc/conf.d/local.stop file or do I need to do something else to ensure a smooth shutdown?
>
> That's OK, but it's not as clean as you might think.  Adding a
> 	uml_mconsole uml_name sysrq s
> beforehand will give you clean filesystems by syncing stuff out.
>
> Even then, the processes inside UML won't be shut down cleanly.  For that, I think you need
> to run something inside the UML which does a halt or something equivalent.

Change the ctrlaltdel entry in /etc/inittab to do a shutdown rather than reboot.
Usually just change the "-r" to an "-h".  Then you can use uml_mconsole with
the "cad" option to shut down all the processes properly (presumably, as long
as they are properly set up to do that).


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