[Lxc-users] Best way to shutdown a container

[Osvaldo Filho]

This work with Upstart (Ubuntu 10.04)?

2010/8/13 Ralf Schmitt <ralf at brainbot.com>:
> Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> writes:
>
>> On 08/13/2010 03:55 PM, Clemens Perz wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I used to run lxc-stop on my system containers when I actually want to
>>> run a halt. Only today I noticed, that stop actually kills all
>>> processes, not really doing a halt. I went through the lxc commands and
>>> did not find something graceful to do this job from the host systems
>>> shutdown scripts.
>>>
>>
>> Right.
>>
>>> Did I miss it? Maybe lxc-halt is a missing piece ;-) Is there a simple
>>> way to do it, preventing the need to login to the container and run halt?
>>>
>>
>> It is not possible to simply shutdown / reboot a container from outside.
>
> As a workaround I use the following script:
>
> http://gist.github.com/522980
>
> It send's ctrl-c ("ctrl-alt-del") to the init process in the container
> and waits until only one process is running.
>
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