After changing /etc/inittab, mine wouldn't work the first time either. After the reboot it seemed to be OK.
Rich Smrcina ----- Original Message ----- From: Nick Laflamme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:04 pm Subject: Re: SLES8 trap signal shutdown > For those of us playing along at home and trying to get this work, is > there a short list of mistakes one might make (or > contraindications one > might overlook) in this context? > > Q SIGNALS on my VM system confirms that my Linux image is waiting > for a > shutdown signal. > > The first time I edited /etc/inittab to add this, I reversed two > lettersin "ctrlaltdel" and got an error message when I next did an > "init 6", so > I know I'm in the right file, and since the error message went > away, I > presume I'm spelling it correctly now. :-) > > But when I actually do the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN USER xxxx WITHIN 90, it > justwaits 90 seconds and then logs itself off, without doing the > "/sbin/shutdown -h now" specified. I know it didn't do the shutdown > because when it comes back up, it takes forever doing the fsck.... > > For what do I look next? > > Thanks, > Nick > > Rich Smrcina wrote: > > >In /etc/inittab: > > > ># what to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed > >ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now > > > > > >On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 08:48, Eric Sammons wrote: > > > > > >>What should the ctrlaltdel line look like? If it is required... > >> > >>Thanks! > >>Eric Sammons > >> > >> > >-- > >Rich Smrcina > >Sr. Systems Engineer > >DSG eServer & Linux Solutions > >Milwaukee, WI > >rsmrcina at wi.rr.com > >rsmrcina at dsgroup.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX- > 390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
