[Lxc-users] Does lxc-stop shut down services gracefully?

[Johannes Graumann]

Serge Hallyn wrote:

> Quoting Johannes Graumann
> (johannes_graumann at web.de):
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is using "lxc-stop -n <CONTAINER>" on a host equivalent to running
>> "shutdown" within the container, meaning services are put to rest
>> gracefully etc?
>> 
>> I'm in the process of scripting backup infrastructure for containers
>> running DBs (plone, mysql) and would like to avoid db corruption ...
>> 
>> Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> Depends on your lxc version.
> 
> If yours does, then the lxc-stop manpage will have text like:
> 
> By default, it will request a clean shutdown of the container (by
> sending SIGPWR to the container), wait 60 seconds for the container to
> exit, and returns.

As my debian has lxc version: 0.9.0.alpha3 and the man page contains no such 
text, I guess it just kills ... also takes nowhere close to 60 sec...

I guess I will have to ask for an explicit shutdown then ...

Sincerely, Joh