On Tue 2011-10-18 (15:22), Derek Simkowiak wrote: > What is the best method for gracefully shutting down LXC containers > in a production environment?
I use "lxc -s container" which itself executes a "shutdown -h now" via cmdd, see: http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/lxc.html > lxc-attach -n CONTAINER shutdown -h now > > Is there any drawback to doing that, instead? root@vms2:~# lxc-attach -n bunny -- shutdown -h now lxc-attach: Does this kernel version support 'attach' ? lxc-attach: failed to enter the namespace root@vms2:~# uname -a Linux vms2 2.6.35-30-server #59~lucid1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 1 19:39:17 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux > 3. An "official" command name for graceful shutdowns from the host. I > propose lxc-shutdown. (There is an unofficial OpenSuse package from > rdannert that has a "lxc-shutdown-all" command, but I have not seen the > name "lxc-shutdown" used anywhere.) > > 4. Which signal? SIGINT? SIGPWR? Both? Does only work for init based systems, not for upstart, like Ubuntu! -- Ullrich Horlacher Server- und Arbeitsplatzsysteme Rechenzentrum E-Mail: horlac...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-685-65868 Allmandring 30 Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
