Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:51:23 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc functions don't allow processes to shutdown Message-ID: <46D8470B.9030304@miralink.com> In-Reply-To: <46D84697.800@fsck.ch> References: <46D84609.3080409@miralink.com> <46D84697.800@fsck.ch>
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Tobias Roth wrote: > Sean Bruno wrote: > >> I noticed that if rc.conf has ntpd_enable="NO", an invocation of >> /etc/rc.d/ntpd stop won't actually shut down ntpd. I checked a couple >> of other processes(like net-snmp) and noted the same behavior. >> >> I would have expected that rc would be able to invoke the stop routines >> if a utility is disabled, but apparently the check for enabled/disabled >> occurs much too early in the rc handling functions for the stop to fire >> off. >> I could investigate further, as I am sure that it's a fairly easy fix to >> allow the stop functions to be invoked regardless of the enable/disable >> state. >> Does it make sense to anyone else that the rc functions should be able >> to shutdown a process when it has been disabled in rc.conf? >> > > /etc/rc.d/ntpd forcestop > Indeed one could invoke that. My question is more about what 'stop' should or should not do. Specifically, should it 'stop' when a process has been disabled? Sean
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