Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:18:54 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clean shutdown Message-ID: <19990208191854.B5045@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902050540320.7291-100000@linux1.usls.edu>; from Francis A. Vidal on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:43:11AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902050540320.7291-100000@linux1.usls.edu>
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I made a search on the www.freebsd.org and this is what I found:
> I want to change the system behaviour when I press on ctrl+alt+del
> I am using squid in one of my freebsd boxes and when somebody
> restarts it squid tries to read a log file which is very long!
> because it did not close right, I guess normally system closes
> processes with something like kill -9 ...
> I need to issue kill -TERM for squid and system should wait enough
> time
> for it to be able to write last changes to its log.
> I have looked at man init page and there it is talking about a
> file called /etc/rc.shutdown but I do not have that file,
> should I create it? or how can I change the shutdown commands?
Yes, create /etc/rc.shutdown as a shell script for what you want the
system to do at shutdown, which in your case is bring down squid
gracefully. The system will wait for rc.shutdown to complete before
forcibly killing things.
Doug White
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:43:11AM +0000, Francis A. Vidal wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i'm running FBSD 2.2.8-STABLE and i wonder if there is a configurable
> shutdown rc. file that would let me specify shutdown sequence for some
> daemons and processes.
>
> i'm asking this because i'm running squid and it takes an awfull amount of
> time to get it up again because it rebuilds the cache if it was not
> shutdown properly (i.e. `squid -k shutdown').
So a good tip is. Always look at www.freebsd.org and the search part of
the site. You can search in previous mails to almost all lists from
freebsd.org
>
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