description "lxc instance" author "Christian Kampka " stop on stopping lxc # wait for 120 seconds for container to shutdown before killing it kill timeout 120 # send SIGPWR to container to trigger a shutdown (see lxc-shutdown(1)) kill signal SIGPWR instance $NAME usage "NAME=name of LXC instance" pre-start script lxc-wait -s RUNNING -n $NAME -t 0 && { stop; exit 0; } || true end script script exec lxc-start -n $NAME end script