cass-gracefulStopDatabase-and-reboot() {
    logger -s "ob3 - Cassandra database docker container is gracefully stopping....."
    docker exec -it MYCASSANDRACONTAINERNAME nodetool flush
    docker exec -it MYCASSANDRACONTAINERNAME nodetool stopdaemon
    #dont stop docker database or it wont automatically restart  on reboot
    logger -s "ob3 - C* stopped but container still running.  Restart with docker stop database and docker start database" 
    #don't just use shutdown as we have aliased that and it will loop...
    #continue shutdown/restart
    /usr/sbin/shutdown $1 $2
}