Nick, I don't recall if you mentioned that you have any additional service applied to SLES8. I think you need SP2 for signal support. The systems that I've been working with have SP3.
Rich Smrcina ----- Original Message ----- From: Nick Laflamme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:54 am Subject: Re: SLES8 trap signal shutdown > Rob van der Heij wrote: > > >On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 22:04, Nick Laflamme wrote: > > > > > > > >>The first time I edited /etc/inittab to add this, I reversed two > letters>>in "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. :-) > >> > >> > > > >The init 6 takes another part of the inittab. > > > > Sorry, that was unclear, wasn't it? The "init 6" was just to force a > re-read of the inittab. (I appreciate the tips on other ways to do > this!) > Rich Smrcina's observation that his first test failed but his second > test failed wasn't repeated here; the second test didn't even > trigger a > LOGOFF at the of the "within" period on the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN > command in > VM. (Not that I had understood that the first time, but I took it as > some kind of good sign! :-) ) > > The Linux guest's console is SCIF'ed to another userid; it doesn't > showany activity when the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN is issued except for the > messagefrom CP that the interval has expired.. :-( > > It looks like we're not yet in the clear on this one.... Oh, well, > that's a nice thing about VM, it's easy to generate another guest just > for this kind of testing. :-) > > >Yours now it looks like this? > > > >ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r -t 4 now > > > >I would have thought I had -h in, but this seems to work... > > > > > > "-r" instead of "-h"? Odd. :-) Otherwise, yes, that's my line, for the > moment. I'll probably add a message to be sent to all users, > mostly for > debugging purposes. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > 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
