Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: strange gentoo shutdown sequence

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 12:25, splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:59:25PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote:
> > >I don't know; I don't use RHL or RHEL.  However, I suspect they work just
> > >as Gentoo does.  init(8) first signals the processes in its process group,
> > >so you'll see:
> > >
> > >INIT: Switching to runlevel 0
> > >INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
> > >INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
> > >
> > >on the console.  Then init runs the RHL shutdown scripts, the final one of
> > >which probably sends all processes SIGTERM and SIGKILL, just like Gentoo's
> > >/etc/init.d/halt.sh does.
> > 
> > No, you first see the init-scripts shutting down all the services, and 
> > than you see the TERM/KILL stuff.
> 
> *shrug*  Maybe they kludged init so they wouldn't get support calls asking
> why processes were being killed before the shutdown scripts ran.

It is patched out.  I used to do the same thing with Slackware/LFS boxes
simply because it made for fewer questions from users.  You can always
grab the .src.rpm and look at what patches they use yourself.

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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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