rc.d cleanup patch redux

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 28 11:07:42 PDT 2007


On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> 5. Add the shutdown KEYWORD to all the scripts that start persistent
>> services. I'm not sure why this was never done in the past, but I
>> think it should be done, since it allows the possibility of a
>> clean(er) shutdown. I left out network, routing, and kerberos stuff
>> from this pass, since I don't use kerberos and I'm not sure what
>> effect this would have, and routing (including firewall stuff) can go
>> down last as it does now.
>
> I'd feel better about this change if /etc/rc.shutdown used 'stop'
> instead of 'faststop'.

That's a good point. No objection on my side to adding that change.

Doug

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