On 09/01/2010 04:19 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>
> "Kevin J. Cummings"<cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On 08/31/2010 09:08 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>>> Why not just do reboots at 3 in the morning and it just won't matter all
>>> that much. I just have a cron script in /etc/cron.daily that checks to
>> No! I'm often doing something at 3AM (granted I *should* be going to
>> bed before that time), and I hate it when I'm working on something the
>> the system goes down for a reboot without asking first....
>
> I've been there too. It used to just do a "shutdown -r +3 'a quick
> reboot for yum'", but even with the 3 minute warning a pending reboot
> was a real pain in the neck. I'd often be funbling with "ps" trying
> frantically to locate the shutdown so I could kill it before it killed
> me. ;-)
FWIW, a simple "shutdown -c" should cancel a running shutdown process.
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