Comments on: Soft shutdown

By: Bruce Scott

Bruce Scott — Sat, 25 May 2013 09:50:33 +0000

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:40:01AM -0700, Albert Chu wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 10:32 -0700, Andy Cress wrote: > > For this symptom: > > > Trying to shut down the machine (actually, a whole set of machines, > > all > > > behaving the same, so it’s not a single fault), by running “shutdown > > -h > > > now”, will not halt but reboot it. > > > The only way to reliably switch it off seems to be to run “ipmitool > > > chassis power soft”, then “shutdown -h now”. > > > The machine will then stay off for exactly 24 hours, then magically > > > restart. > > > > It sounds to me like someone is doing one of these every 24 hours: > > * sending a Wake-On-LAN magic packet to eth0 > > * sending an IPMI LAN chassis control power on command.

By: Joesph T. Love

Joesph T. Love — Sat, 04 May 2013 06:41:51 +0000

ipmipower allows users to remotely power on, off, cycle, hard reset, get a power status query, perform a pulse diagnostic interrupt, or initiate a soft-shutdown of the OS via ACPI through the IPMI over LAN protocol.

By: yellowKompressor

yellowKompressor — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:34:47 +0000

Mike, 1.3 with soft-shutdown is finally submitted for review. Unless something unexpected happens the update should available on the app store in about a week.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:58:05 +0000

Has the development stopped for this ?

>> With version 1.3 of IPMI touch a couple of weeks away from public release <<

That was in 6 months ago and I am really waiting for this feature