02-16-2009
You should have a man page that states
"-t sec
Tell init(8) to wait sec seconds between sending processes the warning and the kill signal, before changing to another runlevel."
When the shutdown occurs, a program called init must kill running processes. To do this it first does the equivalent of a "kill -15 pid" and if that doesn't work, it will do the equivalent of a "kill -9 pid". The -t is affecting how long init waits between the two kills. The default is 5 seconds. So a "-t 120" might take longer to complete the shutdown. But if the first kill works, init will never try the second kill. In that case, the -t could have no effect at all.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hai
Could somebody tell me the solution to my problem.
the question is as follows
there is one unix server and 100 dummy terminals connected to my server, i want to shutdown client system if some of the
client forgetten to power down their system.
plez provide me the code for that. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rajashekaran
2 Replies
2. SuSE
Hello all
I'm trying to automate the startup/shutdown of my database whenever the OS is bounced ...
OS : Linux (Kernel : 2.4.20.-6)
Oracle : 9.2.0.5
The contents of /etc/init.d/dbora file is listed below
case "$1" in
'start')
su - $ORACLE_OWNER -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart"... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: luft
1 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all -
On some of the systems we use - AlphaServer es40 Tru64 digital unix - you can login with the username: shutdown - with no password - and it shuts down the system gracefully. I've tried to trace what's going on in the system, but to no avail.
I've been searching the web, but... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kapolani
1 Replies
4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi Guys,
I want to execute few of my bash script, so that whenever someone calls shutdown now -r command, I want my script to execute first before shutting down.
Any help please?????
I've just started playing with the unix system, so far its been brilliant.... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: alpha_manic
10 Replies
5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Firstly uname -a = UnixWare companyname 5 7.1.4 i386 x86at SCO UNIX_SVR5
Server is an HP Proliant ML350 G4 Tower
Right, now to the problem.
We frequently have power outtages and lightning strikes here due to our location in a VERY rural part of the UK.
As such, I need to be able to remotely... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: aewpcoles
6 Replies
6. HP-UX
Hi,
I am on Alpha Server with HP Tru64 system.
I wish to setup shutdown to automatically and cleanly shutdown informix during the shutting down of the system.
Ie. I was trying to use rc0.d to do this but failed.
Has anyone tried doing this before? I already have the script and linked it
to... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: kingsto88
0 Replies
7. AIX
Hi Guys,
Please help in this...when we start HACMP services ..server is getting shutdon.
Error mesg from cluster.log.
Apr 14 08:43:27 bascop17 snmpd: NOTICE: SMUX trap: (0 0) (127.0.0.1+46302+1)
Apr 14 08:43:33 bascop17 topsvcs: (Recorded using libct_ffdc.a cv 2):::Error ID:... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: b_manu78
1 Replies
8. Solaris
Hi
is shutdown and init 0 are same command in solaris? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mokkan
2 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have Oracle 9i R2 on AIX 5.2. My Database is running in shared server mode (MTS).
Sometimes when I shutdown the database it shutsdown cleanly in 4-5 mints and sometimes it takes good 15-20 minutes and then I get some ora-600 errors and only way to shutdown is by opening another session and... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: aixhp
7 Replies
10. AIX
Hi,
I'm testing out this plink script - which will be executed to shutdown multiple LPARs.
This consists from:
plink -i /path/ssh/cert/ root@host shutdown -F
plink -i /path/ssh/cert/ root@host2 shutdown -F
The commands gets executed, however it stops on one host, and does not move... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ollie01
6 Replies
KILL(1) Linux Programmer's Manual KILL(1)
NAME
kill - terminate a process
SYNOPSIS
kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] [ -- ] pid ...
kill -l [ signal ]
DESCRIPTION
The command kill sends the specified signal to the specified process or process group. If no signal is specified, the TERM signal is sent.
The TERM signal will kill processes which do not catch this signal. For other processes, it may be necessary to use the KILL (9) signal,
since this signal cannot be caught.
Most modern shells have a builtin kill function, with a usage rather similar to that of the command described here. The `-a' and `-p'
options, and the possibility to specify pids by command name is a local extension.
OPTIONS
pid... Specify the list of processes that kill should signal. Each pid can be one of five things:
n where n is larger than 0. The process with pid n will be signaled.
0 All processes in the current process group are signaled.
-1 All processes with pid larger than 1 will be signaled.
-n where n is larger than 1. All processes in process group n are signaled. When an argument of the form `-n' is given, and it
is meant to denote a process group, either the signal must be specified first, or the argument must be preceded by a `--'
option, otherwise it will be taken as the signal to send.
commandname
All processes invoked using that name will be signaled.
-s signal
Specify the signal to send. The signal may be given as a signal name or number.
-l Print a list of signal names. These are found in /usr/include/linux/signal.h
-a Do not restrict the commandname-to-pid conversion to processes with the same uid as the present process.
-p Specify that kill should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any signals.
SEE ALSO
bash(1), tcsh(1), kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(7)
AUTHOR
Taken from BSD 4.4. The ability to translate process names to process ids was added by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>.
Linux Utilities 14 October 1994 KILL(1)