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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:15:40 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Studded <Studded@gorean.org>
Cc:        MIHIRA Yoshiro <sanpei@sanpei.org>, rustam@eanetways.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/12093: /sbin/reboot does not run /etc/rc.shutdown during reboot
Message-ID:  <19990621091540.A45796@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <376B5DBE.66488AB3@gorean.org>; from Studded on Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 02:07:10AM -0700
References:  <199906090913.CAA43156@freefall.freebsd.org> <199906100342.MAA17350@lavender.yy.cs.keio.ac.jp> <19990610111931.B27083@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <376B5DBE.66488AB3@gorean.org>

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On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 02:07:10AM -0700, Studded wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 12:42:39PM +0900, MIHIRA Yoshiro wrote:
> > > ru@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
> > >
> > > >> Synopsis: /sbin/reboot does not run /etc/rc.shutdown during reboot
> > > >>
> > > >> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > > >> State-Changed-By: ru
> > > >> State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 9 01:13:34 PDT 1999
> > > >> State-Changed-Why:
> > > >> Not a bug.
> > > >> init(8) executes rc.shutdown whenever it receives SIGTERM signal.
> > > >> reboot(8) explicitly prevents this by sending init(8) SIGTSTP signal.
> > > >> You can use shutdown(8) to terminate your system gracefully.
> > >
> > >   But
> > >       shutdown -h now         --> not execute /etc/rc.shutdown
> > >
> > It shouldn't execute /etc/rc.shutdown:
> > 
> > shutdown(8):
> > 
> > -h      The system is halted at the specified time when shutdown executes
> >         halt(8).
> > 
> > halt(8) is a link to reboot(8), and it acts like reboot, i.e.
> > explicitly send init(8) SIGTSTP signal to prevent it from running
> > /etc/rc.shutdown.
> > 
> > There are two ways to shutdown your system gracefully:
> > 1) Explicitly send init(8) SIGTERM signal (kill -15 1)
> > 2) Run ``shutdown [time]'' without specifying -h -r -p switches.
> 
> 	Neither of which is acceptable if you are issuing the command remotely and
> absolutely must have the system reboot.
> 
Init(8) will run /etc/rc.shutdown and then reboot your system if send SIGINT.

P.S.
I'm working on init(8) and shutdown(8) code now to improve their functionality.
Init(8) in 4.0-CURRENT now supports SIGUSR1 (halt) and SIGUSR2 (halt+poweroff).


Cheers,
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