Influencing upstart from within a job

[Scott James Remnant]

"shutdown now" simply emits a "runlevel 0" or "runlevel 6" event

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How each distribution implements their shutdown process is up to then, if
> > "shutdown now" doesn't work within your boot sequence, you should contact
> > the distribution to find out what method does work.
>
> Thanks for the response. At a low level, how does "shutdown now" work?
> It's part of the upstart package and not anything distribution
> specific, so it appears as though it does something related to
> emitting upstart events to me, but I'm not clear on the internals of
> upstart to know how to signal it to do something at a low level.
>
> I do have a case with Red Hat open on this as well, but at this point
> I'm trying all of my options to figure out a way to do this :)
>
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