Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 13:18:02 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Shutodwn oreder sequencing info request (second try) Message-ID: <20000101131802.A612@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200001011725.JAA21247@netcom.com>; from "Stan Brown" on Sat Jan 1 12:25:32 GMT 2000 References: <200001011725.JAA21247@netcom.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 01), Stan Brown said: > i am trying to set up my FreebSD 3.4 STABLE box to work with a ups. > > As a part of this I need to tell the UPS to shutdsown. Obviously this > must be _very late_ in the shutdown sequence. i have just found out by > expiremantation the /etc/rc.shutdow is not late enough :-( (do you now > how long it takes to fsck a 13G disk ?). > > Where in the shutdown sequence should I add this? The disks need to be > dismounted, and / avaialble as read only at this point in time. You'll probably have to write a kernel module for this. It looks like you can tell the kernel to run functions on shutdown; see /sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c . You'll probably want to hook into the "shutdown_final" event. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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