system reboot after swinstall does not execute rcx.d/Kxxx files?

[Kathy Khaghani]

I installed some patches on my N-class recently and after system came up, checked the rc.log and rc.log.old files and I don't see any message regarding the rc shutdown scripts being run. any ideas?

thanks
Kathy

[F Verschuren]

you can configger this see /var/adm/sw/defaults and /usr/sbin/clean_reboot

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Kathy:

A 'swinstall' session that requires an automatic reboot executes 'reboot' and not 'shutdown'. A 'reboot' does not run any shutdown scripts.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Pete Randall]

It was my understanding that swinstall always did a "reboot" rather than a "shutdown" because the assumption was that your system would be inactive, i.e. DB and any critical apps would be shutdown already.


Pete

[Kathy Khaghani]

Thanks James,

Is there a way to change that? If not, does reboot shuts down the processes gracefully?
Specifically for the informix database we have a shutdown script in rc0.d which insures that the database is shutdown gracefully.

[F Verschuren]

let me explain this is done on purpes, a instalation of a product causes executables to change, a stop script wil not work because the aplication that is upgraded is running on a other version that the stopscript can handele.
If you have a aplication that needs to be stoped like sap ore oracle and you do not want it to be forgotten you can configer some extra stopscripts before you system wil reboot:
see folowing instruktion

1 maks sure the nex lines are in the defaults file:
cat //var/adm/sw/defaults |grep -v ^#
swagent.reboot_cmd=/usr/sbin/clean_reboot
swinstall.rpc_binding_info = ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
swcopy.rpc_binding_info = ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
swremove.rpc_binding_info = ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
swconfig.rpc_binding_info = ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
swverify.rpc_binding_info = ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
swlist.rpc_binding_info = ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
swreg.rpc_binding_info = ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
swacl.rpc_binding_info = ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
swjob.rpc_binding_info = ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
########################

THan make sure the clean_reboot is filled in properly where you read YOURAPLICATION you have to fill in the stuf it needs to stop, do not fil in products that are installed whit swinstall because that might cause problems!

cat /usr/sbin/clean_reboot
#!/bin/sh

if [ -f /sbin/init.d/YOURAPLICATION] ; then
/sbin/init.d/YOUARPLICATION stop
else
echo "ERROR: Cannot find YOUAPLICATION stop script.."
fi
/usr/sbin/reboot

[Pete Randall]

No, reboot does not do a graceful shutdown. It, as you noted, skips all the shutdown scripts.


Pete

[Kathy Khaghani]

well, Pete answered my last question. thank you all for fast replies.

[F Verschuren]

in my last replay
change YOURAPLICATION to your database stop script and it wil be stoped nice and after that the shutdown will follow...

[Kathy Khaghani]

thanks again for your help everyone, i'm new to the forum, and already love it.

[Kathy Khaghani]

i'm closing this thread

[James R. Ferguson]

HI (again) Kathy:

In my opinion, if you are planning a patch application that requires a reboot (and the patch or installation notes that you *always* read ahead of time will tell you that) then you need to *schedules* a downtime with your users. Then, *before* beginning the 'swinstall' session, shutdown your applications!

Regards!

...JRF...