[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#590895: sysvinit: shutdown -hP sets INIT_HALT to POWERDOWN not POWEROFF

[Rob Donovan]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
Severity: normal


The shutdown man page says that the -P option will set the INIT_HALT variable to POWEROFF.
However, echo statements placed at the top of do_stop() in /etc/init.d/halt reveal that this
variable is set to POWERDOWN.  Assuming nothing modified the value of INIT_HALT inbetween,
this suggests that either shutdown or its man page should be fixed.


Further down in /etc/init.d/halt the following script

        if [ "$INIT_HALT" = "POWEROFF" ] && [ -x /etc/init.d/ups-monitor ]
        then
                /etc/init.d/ups-monitor poweroff
        fi

tests for POWEROFF only.  So, if you configured your ups monitoring software to shutdown on
a power outage with "shutdown -hP" your UPS will never power off.  It seems to me that
either shutdown should be fixed to set INIT_HALT to POWEROFF, or this script should test for
both, or the use of -hP as a mechanism to deliberately leave your UPS on after a UPS induced
shutdown should be documented somewhere.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts                 2.86.ds1-61  Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  libc6                       2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                 2.0.65-5     SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                   2.0.30-2     Security Enhanced Linux policy lib
ii  sysv-rc                     2.86.ds1-61  System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils              2.86.ds1-61  System-V-like utilities

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