how to detect Linux shutdown/reboot
Solution 1
Catch SIGTERM. In the handler, read the /var/run/utmp
file to get the runlevel. See the source code of the runlevel(8)
command for reference.
Solution 2
Your assumptions are mistaken. There is no way to catch SIGKILL
; it terminates the process with no chance to respond to it.
With that said, I may have a solution: you can catch SIGTERM
, and if you install the signal handler with sigaction
and the SA_SIGINFO
flag, you should be able to determine which process sent you the SIGTERM
signal. If it came from init
(pid 1), it's a shutdown. This is mildly hackish but might work for your purposes.
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sowrdking
Updated on September 15, 2022Comments
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sowrdking over 1 year
I'm trying to detect shut down or reboot from Linux in my c program. I found that program can use signal(SIGTERM, handler) (SIGKILL, handler). But these two will trigger if user kill the process with command, too.
At some solutions, they said can use runlevel but it won't work. Don't know if the process is kill before the system init the runlevel. I even try to put script in rcx.d, but it still won't work.
Does anyone has some advise? I need to run on many kinds of Linux system.
Thanks.
[Update] I use R solution, but I still don't see my data were clear at reboot or shutdown. Is it my function is wrong??
int start() { if (initIni() == EXIT_FAILURE) return EXIT_FAILURE; struct sigaction act; memset(&act, '\0', sizeof(act)); act.sa_sigaction = &signal_callback_handler; act.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO; sigaction(SIGTERM, &act, NULL); .... } void signal_callback_handler(int signum, siginfo_t *siginfo, void *context) { if (signum == SIGTERM && (long)siginfo->si_pid == 1) { clearData(); } exit(signum); }
[Update] Finally, I use David Schwartz runlevel(8) example to solve my problem. It won't be useful if you use linux command runlevel. Thanks for the great solution.
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versvs about 10 yearsWhat do you want to do with this shutdown/reboot signal? Restart the process, in example?
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isedev about 10 yearsnote SIGKILL cannot be caught!
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sowrdking about 10 yearshello, I try to use you solution but it still won't be trigger at shutdown. Please see my update above. Thanks.