Re: shutdown -h: must hit ALT CTRL F7 else miss messages
>>>>> "d" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman.ddts.net> writes:
d> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 03:54:11AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
d> | I'd just like to mention, and I tried the posted suggestions, but:
d> | say I'm in a usual Xwindow when I issue the shutdown -h now command.
d> | I am then sent to tty1 where I miss all the nice shutting down this
d> | and that service messages. All I will see is the final "Power off".
d> |
d> | If I want to see the nice shutting down this and that service
d> | messages, I must hit ALT CTRL F7 right away.
d> Solution :
d> Don't run 'shutdown -h' in an xterm.
d> Instead, click the logout button in your WM (or desktop), then choose
d> the shutdown option from your display manager.
ok, but that is a whole lot more steps than a simple shutdown -h now.
d> I suspect that all the output goes to vc7 because that's where the
d> command was run from. However, until X is killed, you won't see any
d> of that output since it overwrites its own stuff on vc7. When X goes
d> away, you are sent to vc1. Now you don't see any messages because you
d> sent them to vc7. Using my technique, the messages will come out on
d> vc1 and that's where you'll be sent.
I bet then that there's no way to write a script to so any of this...
d> Alternatively, switch to vc1 first then run shutdown.
Then I got to login there first. Sheesh.
Wait, I know, I will write a script that does a killall -HUP someprocess
[uh oh, which process? icewm? here's my pstree output:]
|-kdm-+-XFree86
| `-kdm---sh-+-emacs-+-emacsserver
| | |-ispell
| | `-pstree
| |-icewm
| |-mozilla-bin---mozilla-bin---4*[mozilla-bin]
| |-ssh-agent
| `-xcin
and then moments later have the script execute shutdown -h now.
Wait again. Looking at man xconsole, man kdm.options, perhaps I can
have my script somehow use this... oh, never mind, X gets shut down
early on.
Wait #3: perhaps I can do in my script
exec vc7 > /dev/tty7 2>&1 #no idea how to name these
shutdown -h now
Anyways, I thought this stuff [linux] was flexible. Certainly
anything I can do from the keyboard can be done from a script? It's
not like I'm asking it to plug in a cable or something.
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