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Date:      Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:18:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
To:        Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adding a message to shutdown.
Message-ID:  <20020105171522.C66447-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ell48gx6.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>

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On 5 Jan 2002, Ken McGlothlen wrote:

> I know this must seem an incredibly minor point, but I'd like to write the
> uptime to /var/log/messages before the system shuts down whenever I do
> "shutdown" or "reboot" or the like.
>
> What would be the best way to go about that?  I know I could hack it into
> rc.shutdown or something, but is there a gentler way?

I think the best approach would be to stick a *.sh script in
/usr/local/etc that runs the following for the "stop" argument:

 /usr/bin/uptime | /usr/bin/logger


Ken Bolingbroke
hacker@bolingbroke.com


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