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Re: Strang shutdown mechanism with Debian



On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 05:21:06PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:

> K92sendsigs belongs much higher in the K* sequence if it does what I
> think it does.

It does - and I agree with you.  However the argument is that it's at
that priority where it was before, forever.

> The only time particular scripts should care about their position
> within a K* *or* S* sequence is when they require the services
> set-up/shut-down by another script.
> 
> For most scripts, particularly at reboot, these dependencies are
> non-existant.  Simply put all debian scripts as a particular number
> *unless* the maintainer can show why they should occur earlier or
> later.

Same for shutdown scripts, except for ~5 scripts: urandom, umountfs,
mdutils, halt/reboot.

Regards,

	Joey

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