rc script: manual stop vs system shutdown

[Enji Cooper]

> On Aug 1, 2019, at 11:07, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/08/2019 20:30, Enji Cooper wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 2019, at 08:53, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Is it possible in an rc script to distinguish between a manual stop
>>>> (e.g., service foo stop) and a stop during a system shutdown (via
>>>> rc.shutdown) ?
>>>> Are there any marker variables for that?
>>>> Or something in the global system state?
>>> 
>>> Not that I can think of, but I like this idea,
>>> I am sure that use cases exist.
>> 
>> Have you looked at:
>> keyword: shutdown
>> etc?
> 
> AFAIK, that keyword only controls whether 'foo stop' is called during
> shutdown or not.

This is correct.

The other implemented keyword is ‘nostart’ (iirc). The two in tandem would likely fit your need, minus someone manually starting a script.

-Enji