On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 14:34 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jon Masters (jcm(a)redhat.com) said:
> > We only shut things down that have been started successfully (have a lock
file.)
>
> Right. But what if I want to run something on shutdown that's unrelated
> to a daemon? And I want to do this from a package, so without manually
> modifying the local rc config?
Create a SXX service that runs in runlevel 0/6, or add a /sbin/halt.local.
Right. I considered that, but this is not "starting" something, it's
shutting something down. In the end, I wound up having a useless start
action that touches a lockfile on startup, just so I can have a "stop"
action to take it down again :-)
Nothing personal, I know you own that package, but I think the logic
there is not ideal ;-)
Jon.