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Questions tagged [shutdown]

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Disabling a CMD command for a User

Let's say there are two accounts on Windows, Admin and User. Im running a program which shutdowns system in some ammount of time (using shutdown /s /t). Is there any way to disable shutdown -a for a User? (Except situation where i disable cmd for…
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Windowns Hyper-V Virtual Machine shutdown instead of restarting as commanded

I am running a Windows 2016 Hyper-V host with the following VM's 2x Windows 2012 R2 2x Ubuntu 16.04 Whenever I carry out a restart of the VM's after an update they nearly always shut down and remain in an 'OFF' state instead of restarting. I have…
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OEL 7.2 with LACP systemd shutdowns networking before umounting _netdev filesystems

I've built an NFS cluster with OCFS2 as a backing filesystem. This is working quite well with the exception of when a node is restarted/shutdown cleanly it causes a fence operation as network is severed before unmounting OCFS2 filesytems to inform…
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Shutdown and poweroff linux server when no one is using it

My backup server (running Arch Linux) can be remotely powered on via its out of band power controller (HP ILO), using a simple ssh command. Several clients will backup at the same time and each will take a different time to complete, meaning I can't…
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How long do daemons have to exit when the server shutdown signal is received?

As we are developing a complex set of services on Linux, we developed a tool that starts them one by one. One of the many considerations for creating such a tool was the order in which items can be started, but also a way to ensure that on the death…
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Configure JBoss7 / EAP6 to undeploy applications before shutdown

When I deploy my JEE6 application on JBoss EAP 6.3 and shutdown the server before manually undeploying the application I get unexpected Exceptions (see below). I'm looking for a way to make shutdown work or a reliable source that states that it does…
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best practise for a shutdown strategy for server with critical processes

Assume a Window Server with running services and running console applications The nature of this software is very critical. Operations take up to a few minutes and should not be terminated. What is strategy to shutdown/restart this sever? Should…
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Stop automatic reboot with gpedit shutdown script in Windows 2k8

I am search for a way to validate and maybe stop an automatic reboot under windows. E.g. automatic reboot is initialized by windows update. When adding a shutdown script with gpedit this script gets executed correctly but what can I do when those…
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Shutdown clients when no one is logged in at a specified time

At our company, the people stop working at 7PM. At 8PM we run a scheduled task with GPO to warn the logged-in user that the computer is going to shutdown. This works fine. When no one is logged-in and the computer is still running, we would like to…
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Can't shut down HyperV VM with Powershell despite admin rights

I am attempting to use a script that shuts down my Hyper-V VMs, copies their VHDs to a target share, then boots them back up. I found the script on spiceworks just a couple days ago. I always receive errors that the system name intended for shutdown…
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How to shutdown VMware Fusion virtual machine on host shutdown

I have a Mac mini running Mavericks server. I installed the Atmail server + webmail vm [a linux centos distribution] in VMware Fusion Professional 6 with the VMware Tools addon. It works flawlessly. I've set it to start on boot and that works very…
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Log Windows 7 Shutdown Process

Are there any utilities that can log the windows 7 shutdown process in a 'debug' mode? Recently several of our Windows 7 workstations started taking over twenty minutes to reboot, and while we've combed the event viewer several times, we cannot find…
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RHEL4 script on shutdown

I need to backup some files every time I shutdown a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. I thought about make it with a script in /etc/rc0.d but shutdown process should wait for my script to finish. So the only idea I have is to make the script run first of…
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Configuring apc ups with ap9630 network management card

I have an apc smt2200 with a network management card. It has a web server on board from which I can configure how it works. Some servers are powered by that ups and they all have PCNS software which connects to the web server on the ups. I would…
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Preserve order of closing services while shutting down the Linux

I defined a Linux systemd service which has few dependencies in unit file using After= and Requires=. My service depends also on SAN filesystems controlled by Veritas. When stopping my service upon shutdown I noticed my service is stopped after VCS…
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