Use the "stop" file to kill processes which prevent shutdown

[mgutt]

Sometimes my server does not restart or shutdown and after a while I found out that still running backup scripts caused this issue. Because of that I created the "stop" file which is automatically executed by Unraid:

touch /boot/config/stop

 

and pasted the following content:

#!/bin/bash

# -------------------------------------------------
# Kill all processes which prevent shutdown
# -------------------------------------------------
while [ $(pkill -xc rsync) != "0" ]; do logger -t stop "rsync killed"; sleep 2; done
while [ $(pkill -xc rcloneorig) != "0" ]; do logger -t stop "rclone killed"; sleep 2; done

 

I use the Config File Editor Plugin to edit files: