Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 00:25:36 -0600 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc.shutdown (First shot) Message-ID: <199412250625.AAA27386@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Dec 94 17:20:28 GMT." <9412242320.AA02541@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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> However, I am not arguing _for_ Ollivier's changes, by any stretch of the > imagination. If you type "shutdown" without bothering to take down INN and > make sure all's well, you darn well get what you deserve. Hokay, I've got an Alpha based box at work that's running a hundred users and bunches of commercial and local packages. In fact I've got two of them. I don't *remember* all the stuff you have to do to shut them down right. But, you say, you could just create a shutdown script and run that instead of shutdown. Hrm... I'm sorry, I'd rather keep things simple. > I'm not a fan of > the SVR4-style 10-trillion-shell-script crud (Solaris is horrible), and I'd > just as soon prefer to keep it simple. ;-) JMHO. IMHO, SIGTERM plus ten seconds is far from simple. It's an obscure kludge and the sort of thing that the Multics and TOPS and VMS fans are *right* to flame about. A single "shutdown" hook is far from the System V multiple run level model (though that's *also* a Good Thing when you have hundreds of users and multiple people with system administrator type duties). Bravo Ollivier!
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