where to put shutdown script

In order for the IDS online server to stop properly before the linux OS shuts down, I created a shutdonw script that contains 'onmode -kuy' among other things. The problem is that it doesn't seem to have a chance being executed. I tried putting the link pointing to this script at '/etc/rc.d/rc0.d', '/etc/rc.d/rc1.d', etc. I also tried looking for the file '/etc/shutdown' as mentions in the Informix Handbook, but it does not exist. Any help is appreciated.

I am not a Linux guy, but food for thought...different methods of shutting down follow different logics of shutting down. /etc/reboot does not run the shutdown scripts in rc3.d, shutdown command does. I added the following lines to the /etc/init.d/informix (the shutdown script on my system) to allow me to see exactly which rc.d directory was controlling my shutdowns with different shutdown commands. You can also read the various man pages, but heck, this is more fun. echo "Shutting down Informix Dynamic Server... " echo "\\ $0 Shutting down Informix Dynamic Server...\\ " >>$INFORMIXDIR/online.log An indirect answer I know, but I hope it helps. Sam -----Original Message----- From: LIXIN WU [mailto:lixinwufeng@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:33 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: where to put shutdown script [2652] In order for the IDS online server to stop properly before the linux OS shuts down, I created a shutdonw script that contains 'onmode -kuy' among other things. The problem is that it doesn't seem to have a chance being executed. I tried putting the link pointing to this script at '/etc/rc.d/rc0.d', '/etc/rc.d/rc1.d', etc. I also tried looking for the file '/etc/shutdown' as mentions in the Informix Handbook, but it does not exist. Any help is appreciated.

Depends on what you are using for shutdown. These days /etc/init.d is very popular - in which case you can create a startup/shutdown script there and link it to /etc/rc2.d (did I get that right?) with an S98Informix (or whatever - an S for Start, and a high number to be late) and a K02informix (again K for kill and low number for early). Look at the contents of /etc/init.d for examples - but then your specific Unix version may still be using inittab for all I know. cheers j. ----- Original Message ----- From: "LIXIN WU" <lixinwufeng@yahoo.com> To: <ids@iiug.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:32 PM Subject: where to put shutdown script [2652] > In order for the IDS online server to stop properly before the linux OS shuts down, I created a shutdonw script that contains 'onmode -kuy' among other things. The problem is that it doesn't seem to have a chance being executed. I tried putting the link pointing to this script at '/etc/rc.d/rc0.d', '/etc/rc.d/rc1.d', etc. I also tried looking for the file '/etc/shutdown' as mentions in the Informix Handbook, but it does not exist. > Any help is appreciated. > >

If you've created a script in /etc/init.d for informix, the script should generally accept arguments "start" and "stop" which perform the necessary oninit and onmode -ky commands. The links in the /etc/rc[0-6].d directories should all reference the /etc/init.d/informix script and should be named according to the convention: Sxxxinformix where xxx is a three digit number Kyyyinformix where yyy = 1000 - xxx (usually) Basically, when the system changes run-level, these links are inspected, and run depending on whether the run-level is increasing or decreasing. So, from level 1-> level 2, the Sxxx scripts are detected and the script is run with a "start" argument whereas for a decreasing level the Kxxx scripts are used to supply the script with a "stop" argument. Depending on your linux distro, these links might be created for you using the chkconfig command: chkconfig --add informix (as long as the script /etc/init.d/informix exists and is executable) Then chkconfig --list informix will show the state of the informix startup at various run-levels: $ chkconfig --list informix informix 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:off 6:off In the above example, the only instance that informix will be started/shutdown will be when the system enters run level 3. You can change the above switches using the command: chkconfig --level n[...] informix {on|off} e.g. chkconfig --level 234 informix on will turn the informix startup/shutdown script on at run-levels 2,3 and 4. who -r will/should show you your current run-level and is probably the level at which you want to turn the script on. System shutdown is level 0, so you might want to turn the script on for level 0 also. Hope this helps Rob Gentsch, Sam wrote: > I am not a Linux guy, but food for thought...different methods of > shutting down > follow different logics of shutting down. > > /etc/reboot does not run the shutdown scripts in rc3.d, shutdown command > does. > > I added the following lines to the /etc/init.d/informix (the shutdown > script on my system) to allow me to see exactly which rc.d directory was > controlling my shutdowns with different shutdown commands. You can also > read the various man pages, but heck, this is more fun. > > echo "Shutting down Informix Dynamic Server... " > echo "\\ $0 Shutting down Informix Dynamic Server...\\ " > >>>$INFORMIXDIR/online.log > > > An indirect answer I know, but I hope it helps. > > Sam > > -----Original Message----- > From: LIXIN WU [mailto:lixinwufeng@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:33 PM > To: ids@iiug.org > Subject: where to put shutdown script [2652] > > > In order for the IDS online server to stop properly before the linux OS > shuts down, I created a shutdonw script that contains 'onmode -kuy' > among other things. The problem is that it doesn't seem to have a > chance being executed. I tried putting the link pointing to this script > at '/etc/rc.d/rc0.d', '/etc/rc.d/rc1.d', etc. I also tried looking for > the file '/etc/shutdown' as mentions in the Informix Handbook, but it > does not exist. > Any help is appreciated. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

Hi, I am using linux red hat and I am sure for all other flavors is the same. Just store script in init.d and link it to the rc5.d directory. Carl