[Users] forced shutdown with client agent

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/29/2013 04:58 AM, Thomas Scofield wrote:
> I have run into a scenario after installing the client agent.  If a VM
> is shutdown, the client agent calls the shutdown command with a 1 minute
> timeout.
>
> Dummy-2::INFO::2013-03-28
> 14:05:21,892::vdsAgentLogic::138::root::Shutting down (timeout = 30,
> message = 'System Administrator has initiated shutdown of this Virtual
> Machine. Virtual Machine is shutting down.'
>
> Since the shutdown command is called with time parameter the VM sets the
> /etc/nologin file. When the VM is forced down the /etc/nologin file is
> not cleared and when it comes back up only root can login until the
> /etc/nologin file is cleared.

hmmm, Vinzenz - should guest agent clear that on guest startup, if guest 
agent set this at shutdown?

>
> Is their some some reason the shutdown time is set to 30 seconds
> (rounded up to 1 minute in the code)?  Are there any know issues with
> setting this to 0?

Vinzenz - if we are rounding up - is this a bug?

>
> Is this the right way to change it to 0?
> psql engine postgres -c "update vdc_options set option_value = '0' where
> option_name = 'VmGracefulShutdownTimeout';"
>
>
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