From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10998 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 16:25:12 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 4 May 2004 16:25:12 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BL2jG-0002OR-Py for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 16:25:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 26240 invoked by uid 50004); 4 May 2004 16:25:10 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 25771 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 16:25:09 +0000 Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 11:25:09 -0500 From: splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040504162509.GD7040@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> References: <20040502173223.GA7160@linux1.home> <20040503162436.GA1938@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> <20040504153724.GC7040@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Disclaimer: Any similarity to an opinion of Purdue is purely coincidental Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: strange gentoo shutdown sequence X-Archives-Salt: bcb36cbc-988f-4817-bf14-b845096df136 X-Archives-Hash: 1c8cd7f9ac4446a6c0281a10d32764d5 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. The point is that there's nothing technically wrong with the way Gentoo does it now. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list