[Freeipmi-devel] Am confused: /usr/bin/poweroff command and FreeIPMI

[anand . manian]

AB,

When you say  "...ipmipower tool has been obsoleted by FreeIPMI...", are you
referring to the the /usr/local/cli/dpccli  and /usr/local/cli/dpcproxy
programs..?

Am a little confused.. since the dpccli and dpcproxy do work perfectly at
this time for power on/off/reset control.

My question is with regards the standard shutdown command /usr/bin/poweroff
which is used on all Linux systems.. with or without IPMI based
motherboards. I have several desktops that do a graceful OS shutdown and
then kill power to disk and fans when /usr/bin/poweroff command is executed.

On the CDC systems however, /usr/bin/poweroff results in a OS shutdown (as
seen by following messages), after which the fan and disks remain powered
on.

==== SNIP ===
Sending all processes the TERM signal...
Sending all processes the KILL signal...
Syncing hardware clock to system time md:
Turning off swap:
Turning off quotas:
Unmounting file systems:
recovery thread got woken up ...
Halting system...
flushing ide devices: hde hdg
Power down.

Instead, I'd like for the CDC systems to be able to do a full power shutdown
as well (as in shutting off fan and disk) in response to /usr/bin/poweroff

Is this something you anticipate the FreeIPMI upgrade to achieve?

-ANand

-----Original Message-----
From: Anand Babu [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 11:29 AM
To: Manian, Anand (PS, Contractor, IM)
Cc: freeipmi-devel; Albert Chu
Subject: Re: Power off does not work...?


ipmipower tool you are using is obsoleted by FreeIPMI project. We are
still under aggressive development. I will soon freeze the code and send
you the new ipmipower tool based on libfreeipmi library.

-ab

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| Noticed that the /usr/bin/poweroff command does not result in system
| power getting turned off on the CDC nodes.
| 
| The dpccli invoked "power off" command works, but wanted to have
| something that does a "graceful" powerdown when the OS is running.
| 
| Any thoughts on how this can be done..?
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