RE: mulitlog not getting terminated when Red Hat reboots?

Brian Reichert wrote:

> Daryl Tester wrote:
>> Those of us that don't kill svscan on shutdown, yes.  :-)

> How do you avoid that, then, without just pulling the plug out of
> the wall? :)
 
Oh yeah, there is that. :-/
 
My shutdown script (from memory, I'm not at the machine) "svc -d"'s
the services, waits for them to show as "down" (with timeout in case
of hang), waits a couple of seconds, then shuts down the services'
loggers.  The rationale behind the wait between service and logger
shutdown is to allow time for the pipe to empty (I sometimes have
fairly elaborate multilog processor scripts).  The halt/reboot/
unplanned power outage then takes care of svscan. :-)
 
It would be nice if the service exit would close the pipe to the
logging process (shutdown on the logger could then be a "svc -o"
and wait for multilog termination due to EOF on pipe), but svscan
holds the write end of the pipe open, so the logger will only see
EOF if you kill svscan.
 
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Regards,
  Daryl Tester, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.