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First, look in crontab for a call to haltsys or init. Someone may have added this for silly reasons.
If you think some privileged user or process has run /etc/haltsys, add these lines to it right after the PATH= line
{ echo $0 `tty` `id` MYPROC=$$ NEXTPROC=$MYPROC while [ $NEXTPROC != 0 ] do ps -lp $NEXTPROC MYPROC=$NEXTPROC NEXTPROC=`ps -p $MYPROC -o "ppid=" ` done } | mail -s "haltsys was run" root
This will give you a full trace of where it was called from. You can use a similar technique with /etc/shutdown.
You might also write a "K" script and put it in /etc/rc0.d. Unfortunately, by that time there isn't as much information to glean from the system. Adding to /etc/rc0 doesn't gain you much either, but at least you know it was not a crash and you *might* still see a suspect process in a ps listing.
If your only concern is when the system went down,
who -a /etc/wtmp | grep uadmin
will give you that. Note that on "out of the box" systems, the information in /etc/wtmp is cleared out weekly by a cron job that runs /etc/cleanup; you may want to adjust this script if you need longer records.
Jeff Hyman tells me that the old 3.2v4.2 "last" included shutdown information, so
last | grep shutdown
would work on those releases. It doesn't on OSR5.
Bela Lubkin commented:
Change this to: } | mail -s "$0 $@ was run" root sync sleep 5 sync The sync and pause routine is necessary because mail delivery can take a while (especially if you've installed spamassassin ;-), you don't want to fire off mail when you know the very next thing you're doing is shutting down. > This will give you a full trace of where it was called from. You can use > a similar technique with /etc/shutdown. This is true enough, but misses /etc/reboot as well as /etc/uadmin. _All_ of the SCO-provided shutdown techniques (init [056], shutdown, haltsys, reboot) eventually funnel through /etc/uadmin. So the best way to do this is to move /etc/uadmin to /etc/uadmin.real and use the above script bit as /etc/uadmin, ending it with: exec /etc/uadmin.real "$@" The `ps` chain is cute, but unnecessary -- better to give `ps -elf` output and let the reader figure out the chaining. The actual cause of shutdown might not be in the parenthood of the process doing the shutdown. (e.g. if someone ran `sd shutdown`.) So the entire script can be reduced to: #!/bin/sh { echo Process $$, on tty `tty`, user `id`, ran: echo " $0 $@" echo ps -elf } | mail -s "uadmin was run" root sync; sleep 5; sync exec /etc/uadmin.real "$@" # "real" /etc/uadmin was renamed /etc/uadmin.real
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