Am Freitag, 8. März 2013 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > If the techs are determined to hard cut power because they don't have > the time or the knowledge to do a clean shutdown, it may be well worth > your time/effort to write a script and teach the field techs to execute > it, before flipping the master switch. Your simple script would run as > root, or you'd need to do some sudo foo within, and would contain > something like: > > #! /bin/sh > sync > echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > echo "Ready for power down." mount -o remount,ro /your/mount/point One can at least try. Maybe some "service stop" commands before that. But then, if using a script like this, why not just type "halt"? Heck, Linux kernel / userspace / distro developers prepared safe shutdown already, so why not use it? Another idea: On Debian Usually on Ctrl-Alt-Delete on a TTY get a shutdown: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now Then you plug a keyboard to the server and tell the local admins to just press Ctrl-Alt-Del in order to shutdown the server instead of the power button. But heck, even just pressing the power button for a short period of time should work. In Debian it does. So you can just tip the power button. So, I do see not much of a reason to not shutdown the server properly. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
