Starting services in runlevels 0 and 6

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Greetings,

I've accidentally noticed that there are a few services which are 
*started* when entering runlevels 0 and 6 (halt and reboot, 
respectively). For example, on my mostly up-to-date sid system I have:

/etc/rc0.d/S30urandom
/etc/rc0.d/S35networking
/etc/rc0.d/S36ifupdown
/etc/rc0.d/S37sendsigs (start action for this one is a no-op)
/etc/rc0.d/S48cryptdisks 
/etc/rc0.d/S59cryptdisks-early

and similar stuff in /etc/rc6.d. I cannot find a rational explanation 
for starting services right before shutdown. Is it intentional, or are 
those just bugs?

Best regards,
-- 
Jurij Smakov                                           jurij@wooyd.org
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