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Date:      Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:07:10 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@gorean.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        MIHIRA Yoshiro <sanpei@sanpei.org>, rustam@eanetways.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/12093: /sbin/reboot does not run /etc/rc.shutdown during reboot
Message-ID:  <376B5DBE.66488AB3@gorean.org>
References:  <199906090913.CAA43156@freefall.freebsd.org> <199906100342.MAA17350@lavender.yy.cs.keio.ac.jp> <19990610111931.B27083@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>

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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 12:42:39PM +0900, MIHIRA Yoshiro wrote:
> > ru@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
> >
> > >> Synopsis: /sbin/reboot does not run /etc/rc.shutdown during reboot
> > >>
> > >> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > >> State-Changed-By: ru
> > >> State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 9 01:13:34 PDT 1999
> > >> State-Changed-Why:
> > >> Not a bug.
> > >> init(8) executes rc.shutdown whenever it receives SIGTERM signal.
> > >> reboot(8) explicitly prevents this by sending init(8) SIGTSTP signal.
> > >> You can use shutdown(8) to terminate your system gracefully.
> >
> >   But
> >       shutdown -h now         --> not execute /etc/rc.shutdown
> >
> It shouldn't execute /etc/rc.shutdown:
> 
> shutdown(8):
> 
> -h      The system is halted at the specified time when shutdown executes
>         halt(8).
> 
> halt(8) is a link to reboot(8), and it acts like reboot, i.e.
> explicitly send init(8) SIGTSTP signal to prevent it from running
> /etc/rc.shutdown.
> 
> There are two ways to shutdown your system gracefully:
> 1) Explicitly send init(8) SIGTERM signal (kill -15 1)
> 2) Run ``shutdown [time]'' without specifying -h -r -p switches.

	Neither of which is acceptable if you are issuing the command remotely and
absolutely must have the system reboot.


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