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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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