Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 11:12:41 -0600 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Shutdown not running rc.shutdown Message-ID: <36754709.3B1D7F04@airnet.net> References: <199812121700.MAA06046@laker.net> <19981213121232.F483@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Saturday, 12 December 1998 at 11:57:07 -0500, Steve Friedrich wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:19:13 +0100, Nicholas wrote: > > > >> According to the 'init' man page, on shutdown init should run the > >> rc.shutdown script and then bring down the machine. On my system > >> (FreeBSD 2.2.5-Release), it seems to bypass rc.shutdown completely. > >> Is there a way to run a script on shutdown similar to the rc.local > >> script on startup? > > > > I see the same behavior with -stable. I tried reboot and shutdown -h > > now, and in both instances, rc.shutdown was ignored. > > This appears to be a known problem. People have recently done a lot > of talking about shutting down, and this was mentioned. They've more > or less stopped now, so maybe somebody will fix it. If you enter a > PR, it will help. Funny thing is, it works if you boot single user and don't do anything besides fsck'ing and mount -a. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail <kirbyk@email.uah.edu> UAH CS <kkirby@cs.uah.edu> Home <kris@airnet.net> WWW <nomurphy@hotmail.com> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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