Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:49:27 +0200 From: Tobias Roth <freebsd.lists@fsck.ch> To: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc functions don't allow processes to shutdown Message-ID: <46D84697.800@fsck.ch> In-Reply-To: <46D84609.3080409@miralink.com> References: <46D84609.3080409@miralink.com>
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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
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