[CentOS] shutdown script

Fri Dec 3 23:45:06 UTC 2010
Michael D. Berger <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com>

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:20:17 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us
> wrote:
> 
[...]
> Is this any good?
> 
> #! /bin/bash
> 
> # Bash script to perform a gracefull shutdown of apache web server #
> called from /root/root-admin-scripts/databases/fedora-8-mysql/ #
> backup-mysql-databases.php
> # DO NOT DELETE!
> #------------------------------------------------------#
> 
> # seconds to wait for apache to shutdown APACHE_GRACE_TIME=10
> 
> # output the current version of apache apachectl -v
> echo ""
> 
> # gracefully shut-down the apache web server apachectl graceful-stop
> 
> echo "Shutting down Apache web server..." echo "Waiting
> $APACHE_GRACE_TIME seconds for Apache web server to finish..."
> 
> # wait for apache to shutdown properly sleep $APACHE_GRACE_TIME
> 
> exit 0
> 
> #------------------------------------------------------#
> 
> I wanted to shutdown Apache so it was not updating MySQL databases when
> the backup script ran ;)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Keith Roberts

I could write a script that shuts down my client and then calls
shutdown, but I was hoping to call a script from the shutdown
procedure that would complete before the rest of the shutdown.

Mike.