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

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Johannes Graumann (johannes_graumann at web.de):
> 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 ...

Try lxc-shutdown?