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Conference forty2::mailbus_400

Title:MAILBUS 400 User Forum
Notice:kits 100-109 - Infocenter //www.digital.com/info/messaging
Moderator:IOSG::MARSHALL
Created:Thu Jun 11 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3210
Total number of notes:9174

3197.0. "MTA shutdown" by KERNEL::16.182.96.116::houldingj () Tue May 20 1997 21:30

Hi

Customer has had problems recently with a corrupt x.500 DIT  and is now 
nervous about retaining the integrity of the system across reboots.

He is trying to build a clean close of the DSA (using DELETE DSA TO 
SNAPSHOT) and MTA whenever they close the system down. The problem is I 
cannot find anywhere on my UNIX system where he would do this.

It appears that shutdown runs the scripts in /sbin/rc0.d - there is one in 
here called osi_applications. In here there is a call for shutdown which 
calls /usr/sbin/osi_applshutdown or /sbin/osi_applshutdown

On our system (and the customers) there is only the first of these. Looking 
at this script it appears to kill any application daemons.

Where would the customer put any commands he needs to execute during 
shutdown?

Thanks

Jill

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3197.1FORTY2::LEAVERWed May 21 1997 14:2910
This is really a UNIX problem rather than an MTA one.

I don't know if this is the recommended method but they could try creating their
own DSA/MTA shutdown script in /sbin/rc0.d 
On shutdown /sbin/rc0 runs all scripts /sbin/rc0.d/K* in ascending numerical
order.  Refer to chapter 4 of the System Administration book and look at the
files in /sbin/rc0.d for examples.

Karen
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3197.2Provided by the product?KERNEL::16.182.96.116::houldingjWed May 21 1997 15:2314
Karen

Thanks.

As the startup of these products is done in osi_appstartup, I wondered if 
there was a comparable place that the shutdown commands should be placed or 
is it the customer's choice?

There is a stop_mta.ncl script in /var/mta/scripts so I wondered if this is 
called anywhere during shutdown by default?

Cheers

Jill
3197.3FORTY2::LEAVERWed May 21 1997 17:215
The MTA only provides automatic startup in osi_applstartup.  It doesn't do
anything with the shutdown script so its up to the customer where they put it.

Karen
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