Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 01:25:27PM -0700, Craig White wrote: >> On Mar 19, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Fred Smith wrote: >> >> > just to be sure I'm clear: the shutdown command appears to be sent >> > to windows, as I desire. then instead of honoring the "+5" in the >> > local shutdown command it shuts down immediately. >> > >> > but if I just run the identical script from a commandline it does >> > exactly what I think it should: (1) tells windows to shut down then >> > (2) waits 5 mins before shutting down Linux. >> ---- >> sounds as if there is another daemon that is processing the signal from >> the UPS system and initiating the power down rendering the 5 minute wait >> in your script moot. > > Well, factor this in, then: > the original powerfail entry in inittab was the same as the shutdown > command in my script EXCEPT for the lengthy command that makes windows > shutdown. It uses exactly the same "shutdown..." command, and as long > as that command is inside inittab, when powerfail occurs, the pause > also occurs. only when I move it out to the external script does the > pause fail to happen. > Dunno if this affects it, but I just found a piece about shutting your XP system down from the command line, and a) he says order of switch matters, and b) gives this as an example... with *no* + sign, it's just seconds. shutdown -s -t 60 From <http://samanathon.com/windows-tip-shutdown-your-computer-with-the-command-prompt/> mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos