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From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT)
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Subject: Re: /etc/rc.shutdown (First shot)
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 13:10:32 +0100 (MET)
Cc: peter@bonkers.taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <9412260643.AA03089@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Dec 26, 94 00:43:23 am
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> approximation that tried to bring the system down in a seconds-countable
> timeframe.  Now I'll get a "halt" that maybe doesn't even halt the system at
> all, if the /etc/rc.shutdown wedges.  Generally, if I type "halt", I want
> the system to be gone.  Solaris actually does this quite well, providing
> "shutdown", "halt", and "uadmin 2 0" to provide a rather fine level of

What I have just now is an init which will run /etc/rc.shutdown when :
1. you type ctrl-alt-del at the console,
2. you type shutdown -h some_time,
3. you type shutdown some_time to go single-user.

Any other way to bring the system down (halt/reboot/fasthalt/fastboot) DOESN'T
run /etc/rc.shutdown.

Speak up people ! What do you want between the following ?

1. nothing at all -- old BSD way
2. the half-way now (only shutdown run the script) -- what *I* have
3. init does all the work and halt/reboot/shutdown all make init run the script ...

I need your opinion, folks.

present: one for 3 (Peter) and one for 1 (Joe).
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT   -=- FreeBSD: the daemon is FREE! -=-   roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
      FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #0: Sun Dec 11 20:52:22  1994
          roberto@keltia:/usr/src/sys/compile/KELTIA i386 ctm#223