Shutdown service

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Grail Dane <grail69 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> Hopefully a quickie, but what do the functions shutdown, halt or reboot emit
> so I can trigger the shutdown process in an upstart only machine?
> Currently, if I do say a 'reboot', the first displays the following:
> Broadcast message from root at ripclaw
>             (/dev/tty1) at 10:50 ...
> The system is going down for reboot NOW!
> Then my command prompt returns and nothing else happens.
> If I then issue 'reboot' again I get:
> md: stopping all md devices
> Now the machine restarts but none of my other processes have been terminated
> / brought
> down nicely.
> I would mention I am testing this in a vm at the mo.
> Hope someone can point me in the right direction

    Does upstart still have the rc0 and rc6 jobfiles / states?
Thanks,
-Garrett