On 03/23/2011 05:25 AM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> When you run something like "shutdown -r 18:30" on a host, users will
> receive a bunch of notifications via (I think) wall(1), like
>
> Message from root:
> The system will reboot in 180 minutes!
>
> Unsurprisingly, if you schedule a reboot of the host system, people
> logged into containers don't receive warnings. But it would be awesome
> if they did -- any ideas how best to achieve that?
You are right, shutdown uses the wall command. This one browse /dev/pts
and write a message to all pty it found in this directory.
As the containers have their own pts instance, they are not seen by
'wall'. One solution would be to share the /dev/pts with the system and
the containers (maybe not a good solution).
Other solution could be to write a lxc-wall command where a message is
took from the command line and send to all the containers via
/proc/<pid>/root/dev/pts
Maybe also, the 'wall' command could be changed to take into account
/proc/<pid>/dev/pts, instead of /dev/pts. By this way, it would take
into account all the pty of all the processes for all the containers.
Relying on the device number which differs between mount points in each
container, we can prevent of notifying several times the same ptys.
For example:
for i in /proc; do
if (i != pid)
continue;
if (already_notified(device_nr(/proc/pid/root/dev/pts)))
continue;
for j in /proc/pid/root/dev/pts; do
if (j == ptmx)
continue;
write_message(/proc/pid/root/dev/pts/j, msg);
done
register_notified(device_nr(/proc/pid/root/dev/pts));
done
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