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From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Subject: Re: No clean shutdown over runit.
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:47:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050213134604.14323.qmail@16343338f17da3.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1107784199.5634.0.camel@localhost>

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:49:59AM -0600, Kevin wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:12 +0530, Umesh T G wrote:
> > I am using RUNIT 1.05. 	
> > When given command "poweroff" It will not shut down, instead it will
> > just display a screen with 
> > 
> > ----
> > Power Down!!!
> > Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init. 
> > ---

> From my understanding, one should use init 0 if you want to power off
> your system.  poweroff doesn't always report to runit correctly,
> whereas init 0 will power off the system cleanly (at least in my
> experience.)

Yes, with runit better use `init 0` to halt the system, and `init 6` for
reboot.  I'll remove the references to other init scheme's shutdown,
reboot, or poweroff programs from the documentation.

> > Also when given the command "reboot" it acts abnormally, like "getties"
> > will not get stopped. 

See
 http://skarnet.org/lists/archive.cgi?2:mss:545:200402:folmoaambdkagghmmhgm

HTH, Gerrit.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-13 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-07 11:42 Umesh T G
2005-02-07 13:49 ` Kevin
2005-02-13 13:47   ` Gerrit Pape [this message]

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