rc.d scripts not being run at shutdown.

[RW]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:55:28 +0000
RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:21 -0500
> Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> 
> > RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> writes:
> 
> > > I could imagine screwing-up the operation of rc.shutdown with a
> > > syntax error, but I don't see how I could stop it being run at
> > > all. As I understand it rc.shutdown is run from init if the file
> > > exists.  init itself doesn't seem to have been modified recently,
> > > so I'm out of ideas.
> > 
> > rc.subr and rc.conf will be sourced first, so errors in those could
> > cause problems.  
> 
> That's a good point, but I just tried it with an rc.shutdown script
> that contains only the touch statement, and the file wasn't touched
> (and I have tried running the touch manually).
> 
> I should also add that this problem has survived a world+kernel
> rebuild to 7.0-RC2, which included the use of mergemaster. All the
> scripts under /etc should be the ones in the repository.

And now I come to think about it, I was tinkering with a random number
script at the exact time the entropy file was written-out, and I'm
pretty certain I wrote it myself. That means I have no evidence that
rc.shutdown has worked at all since I installed FreeBSD 7 in early
December.