Jon Peatfield wrote:
>

> 
> BTW the default reboot/shutdown procedures in el5/sl5 don't give user 
> processes very long to checkpoint themselves, and I *think* that 
> networking may have been turned off by the time they get signalled.  We 

That's too silly for words. How likely is it that users, somewhere, will 
have open files on NFS mounts?

100% where home is on an NFS mount. I don't think any distro would be 
shutting down networks that soon.



> ended up adding an extra shutdown script which runs fairly early and 
> sends sigterm to all user processes and give them a short time to save 
> state before carrying on with the shutdown/reboot.
> 
> I'm not sure if it was any different in earlier versions but we got more 
> complaints after the update to sl5...
> 


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John

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