From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 6 13:34:50 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB5737B612; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:34:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA54520; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:34:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:34:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Brian Somers , Thomas Gellekum , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.shutdown In-Reply-To: <12690.962870098@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So, generally, my observation for rc.d scripts was that previously, they never even looked at the arguments, so running (whatever) stop will actually run additional copies of the service on shutdown, if /usr/local/etc/rc.d is not updated. Is this correct? I.e., if I shutdown postgresql, but then run shutdown -p NOW, it will restart postgresql, then kill it? On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:58:08 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > Now that the scripts in our ports support this, call the scripts > > > in ${local_startup} with the `stop' option on shutdown. > > > > Is this not going to cause confusion as people update /etc and don't > > update /usr/local/etc/rc.d ? > > Confusion, certainly. Disaster, no. :-) > > Basically, a HEADS UP to the -current mailing list will reduce the > number of posts complaining about harmless error messages, but they are > harmless nonetheless. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message