>>> On 6/3/2009 at  1:43 PM, Robert J McCarthy <bob.mccar...@custserv.com> 
>>> wrote: 
> I am trying to develop a shutdown procedure to cleanly shutdown my linux
> guests, prior to shutting down vm. Reading the documentation in the
> virtualization cookbook for SLES10 and the vm CP COMMANDS manual; I have
> setup the following :
> 1. In each linux guest's /etc/inittab; I have changed the shutdown -r to
> shutdown -h

This is entirely unnecessary.  If you leave the switch as "-r" it will still 
work.  This makes it possible to have a common /etc/inittab for all 
architectures and still get the desired results.


Mark Post

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