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Re: getdate



Brad (lists@anomie.dhis.org) wrote:

>    Going to runlevel 0 or 6 will cause the system to be halted or 
>    rebooted, respectively. For example, if we go to runlevel 6 (reboot)
>    first all /etc/rc6.d/KXXxxxx scripts will be executed alphabetically
>    with "stop" as the first argument.
> 
>    Then the /etc/rc6.d/SXXxxxx scripts will be executed alphabetically
>    with "stop" as the first argument as well. The reason is that there
>    is nothing to start anymore at this point - all scripts that are
>    run are ment to bring the system down.

Oh, YUCK!  That's really, really counterintuitive.

>    In the future, the /etc/rc6.d/SXXxxxx scripts MIGHT be moved to
>    /etc/rc6.d/K1XXxxxx for clearity.

I hope so.

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