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

[Johannes Graumann]

Serge Hallyn wrote:

> 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?

Gee - I'm stupid! Thanks - exactly what I was looking for. To bad I had 
already whipped up my own solution before your message ... waste of time!

Thank you again.

Joh