Re: halted system still working as router.
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
29 Oct 1998 10:38:25 +0100
In article <cistron.36379467.46C4D9E5@sheridanc.on.ca>,
Paul <paul.hessels@sheridanc.on.ca> wrote:
>The power in my apartment went out and my ups was about to fail. I
>typed "shutdown -h now" <enter>. The machine shutdown and halted. It
>said, The system is halted, and System Halted. My ups never did die.
>The curious thing was that when the power came back on I found that my
>computer was still routing traffic to the internet. Is this normal
>behaviors for a computer that has been halted? Is this a kernel
>problem, or specific to my machine(or my kernel)?
Newer versions of sysvinit solved this. halt(1) has a flag that tells
it to shutdown all network interfaces before halting [-i]. Make
sure your shutdown script calls "halt -i" (or even "halt -i -p").
This is the default in Debian 2.0, I don't know about RedHat.
Mike.
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