How to control/overide shutdown/reboot process?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Dear all,

I want to control my server from shutting down and rebooting.
It will ask for some question before the process, ex: who are you? what is the reason for shutting down? ...

I think I can overide that binary of shutdown/reboot command, but it is confused.
We have many way to shutdown/reboot:

  1. By using mouse.
  2. Or many commands: halt, shutshown, reboot, poweroff, init 6.

Do you have any ideas?

2

Give the root password to only two people- you and one other you trust
That way only you can shutdown the server.

3

No, you mis-understood my idea. It is not to secure root password, only to log the reason before shutdown/reboot (like Windows 2003 severs)
my idea is: "Admin users can shutdown/reboot, but everytime they want to reboot they have to answer some questions to keep record of servers shutdown/reboot".

Question could be like this:
1/ what is your name ?
2/ Reason of shutdown/reboot ?

And they may answer:
1/ John Mayer
2/ new package installed

After they answer those questions, the real shutdown/reboot process will start.

And we have log file record that:
[Date and time] [name] [action] [reason] [login from]
2007-03-25 15:02:21 John mayer reboot new package installed 192.168.0.5
...

4

Anyone have an idea?

5

Simple
1)write a script called "servershutdwn" that asks the quetions.
Log the results away in a log file, then executes the real shut down command.
2) do what we do. - All "re-boots" are auhthrised by my department and logged in spread sheet on a windows drive so that management gets a monthly report of re-boot activity.
3) i still reckon you should limit root access, say use "sudo" (for example)

It simply boils down to server security, procedures and policices

6

Thank Andrek,

So how about the real shutdown binary?, I dont want it to run directly even by root account! So I'll make an alias to servershutdown script, is it OK?