From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 12 09:00:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08836 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 09:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08831 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 09:00:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-150.laker.net [208.0.233.50]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id MAA06046; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 12:00:04 -0500 Message-Id: <199812121700.MAA06046@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "nicholas@keyworld.net" Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:57:07 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Shutdown not running rc.shutdown Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Steve Friedrich Viva la FreeBSD!! Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message