topic Re: shutdown scripts not executed in Operating System - HP-UX

shutdown scripts not executed

Penni Nussbaum — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:16:57 GMT

I used the command shutdown "shutdown -r -y 0" to halt my system. However, it looks like the shutdown scripts did not execute. Why?

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

S.K. Chan — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:20:22 GMT

Did you run at / level ? Use the full path for shutdown command.

/etc/shutdown -r -y 0

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

Victor BERRIDGE — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:22:45 GMT

Hi,
In what level were you when you typed the shutdown command?
TO see in your scripts worked look at /etc/rc.log.old

All the best

Victor

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:23:24 GMT

Hi Penni:

Have a look at '/etc/rc.log.old'. This will tell the tale.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

Frederic Sevestre — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:25:40 GMT

Hi,
In addition you can check the /etc/shutdown.allow.

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

Krishna Prasad — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:27:37 GMT

I use shutdown -r now
other then that everyone seems to be on the right page of asking what run level you are at.

Use who -r to find this out.

Another thing could be that someone moved the reboot command or changed the permisions on this file. shutdown actually calls reboot.

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

Frederic Sevestre — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:27:51 GMT

Sorry, I misanderstood your question.
No use checking the shutdown.allow to find the sutdown scripts failure.

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

Penni Nussbaum — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:28:03 GMT

the /etc/rc.log.ol only have the start up scripts in them. That's why I'm assuming the shutdown scripts did not execute. If they did, shouldn't they bi in this file?

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

Darrell Allen — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:35:01 GMT

Hi Penni,

What output did you get or did the command just "sit there"?

By the way, -r does a reboot after shutdown. -h does a halt.

Darrell

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:46:00 GMT

Hi Penni,

The /etc/rc.log.old file should have both the startup and shutdown log for the last boot.

also try this shutdown command,

shutdown -h now
shutdown -r now

run this from the / directory.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: shutdown scripts not executed

Roger Baptiste — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:53:48 GMT

Hi, did the system actually
do the shutdown(reboot)?? or did it return back to the prompt? What was the response you got on the console after executing the shutdown command??
Do you have all the kill scripts in /sbin/rc?.d
i.e the Knnn scripts under /sbin/rc?.d .

What does /etc/shutdownlog show??
Has the syslog file been renamed as OLDsyslog after the shutdown??

HTH
raj