On 7/3/2015 11:27 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: > I am using the system as shown below. > > ********************************* > [root at localhost sbin]# cat /etc/*release > ... > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) yeah, they have their own support forums and stuff. > In case of power failure on this server , how can i make the system to > shutdown gracefully so that it unmounts the file-system and cleans up > the required buffers. > > My server does have a battery backup so it will help in shutting down > the system more gracefully. > if your UPS is on this list, http://www.networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html install NUT (Network UPS Tools), available from the EPEL repository, and configure it to talk to your UPS. NUT documentation: http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/index.html > I tried looking at this link: > > https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=3326.0 > that is advise for a tinylinux embedded system, not a EL 6 system. IMHO, you should never muck about with /etc/inittab on centos/rhel > But it did not help. Appreciate if someone can help me in this regard. I hope you restored your inittab to its original state. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz