Adding a hook to shutdown.c & halt (reboot.c) to call a script.

[Julian H. Stacey]

> shutdown(8) signals init (unless -o is given), which will run
> /etc/rc.shutdown from multi-user mode. The same applies to ctrl+alt+del,
> kernel-controlled overheating shutdown, etc.

Thanks Jilles, So I appended to my rc.shutdown
	# -x not -f below to also allow a symbolic link to work.
	if [ -x "/etc/rc.shutmedia" ]; then
		/etc/rc.shutmedia
& renamed my URL to  http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.sh/rc.shutmedia


> reboot(8) and halt(8) do not involve init and do not run any shutdown
> scripts. I think they should be changed to signal init (except reboot
> -q, halt -q) and should not be used until then. However, there are
> apparently some problems with that.
> 
> The incorrect umount order should perhaps be fixed in the kernel.

Yes, bad enough for a local laptop to hang, 
if it was a remote server, very nasty.

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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