Stopping Shutdown init on HP 9000 HP-UX 10.20

[Tony Lowrie]

Is there a way of stopping the shutdown process after you have just received the 60second Warning that the machine is going to be re-booted.

Good Luck

[John Palmer]

If it's only just warned you then yes, you can kill it.

If you have called shutdown from your terminal session and your 'SUSP' key (man stty) is available (I use ctrl Z) then you can also suspend it. This also works while it is going through the system shutdown scripts.

Regards,
John

[Tony Lowrie]

I apologise I may have mislead you.

What I meant was if the shutdown was initiated by another sys admin in a multiple sys admin environment, for which you had no idea as to the whereabouts of the person who initiated the shutdown sequence.

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

In that case, you have 60 seconds to locate the 'shutdown' process with 'ps' and then kill it.

If this is a regular occurrence then you might consider 'wrapping' shutdown with a script that perhaps increases the grace period.

[federico_3]

You have 60 seconds to view the PID process and kill it :


ps -ef| grep shutdown

kill -9 PID



federico

[Sandro Schaer]

looks like your system administrators don't talk to each other. you could rename /sbin/shutdown to /sbin/shutdown.x and create a shell script called /sbin/shutdown which first echoes that all administrators should be notified about the shutdown. maybe you could "wall" a message. and then execute sbin/shutdown.x as last step in your script