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From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: What about rc.shutdown.local?
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Jan Grant wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Greg Black wrote:
> 
> > Jan Grant writes:
> >
> > > > Better still would be /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh called automatically
> > > > with parameter stop. To do so, insert
> > >
> > > This is all nice (BTDT) although I find the *.sh pattern quite annoying,
> > > due to the alphabetisation issue. When I make these mods I tend to use
> > > the SysV-style S* and K* patterns - that means you get to control the
> > > order of startup _and_ shutdown (which might need a different sequence).
> >
> > This seems trivial.  I name the scripts with two-digit prefixes
> > and an underscore so that I can have meaningful names and an
> > easy way to control the sequence.
> 
> It _is_ trivial, but you miss my point: I run several things at startup
> that rely on a database service (which needs to be launched first). When
> they shut down, the DB must still be running (it's taken down last). So
> using a *.sh pattern for startup and shutdown scripts doesn't satisfy my
> requirements.

make?  tsort?

This was discussed ad nauseum in the last round of discussions about 
replacing /etc/rc*, search the archives if you're interested.

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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