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Date:      Sun, 13 Dec 1998 12:12:32 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "nicholas@keyworld.net" <nicholas@keyworld.net>
Subject:   Re: Shutdown not running rc.shutdown
Message-ID:  <19981213121232.F483@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812121700.MAA06046@laker.net>; from Steve Friedrich on Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:57:07AM -0500
References:  <199812121700.MAA06046@laker.net>

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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.

Greg
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