Re: [Vserver] shutdown on the guest

From: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel_at_hozac.com>
Date: Fri 07 Apr 2006 - 15:43:34 BST
Message-ID: <44367A96.3070504@hozac.com>

Nikolay Kichukov wrote:
> Hi there,
> if i type shutdown -r now on the guest I get the following output:
>
>
> The system is going down for reboot NOW! (pts/1) (Fri Apr 7 14:25:36
> 2006):
>
> shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
>
> init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
>
> is that normal?

It depends on the initstyle your guest uses. If you use the plain
initstyle, and have an init running inside the guest, using plain
reboot/halt/shutdown -r/shutdown -h should work. If you use the default
sysv initstyle, you'll have to use reboot -f/halt -f instead.

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