Re: How to run a script before shutdown?
Good point--thanks for the correction!
On Monday, November 14, 2016 10:26:04 AM Jude DaShiell wrote:
> After a script starts, each command in that script runs until the script
> ends. I noticed when doing something different with wget and wanting to
> have wget do one command then wait until a download had completed that
> without a read command somewhere in the script the next wget command
> fires off as soon as the first one runs.
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2016, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:33:19
> > From: rhkramer@gmail.com
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: How to run a script before shutdown?
> > Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:33:40 +0000 (UTC)
> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >
> > On Sunday, November 13, 2016 08:29:46 PM David Christensen wrote:
> >> On 11/13/2016 11:34 AM, Robert Latest wrote:
> >>> I want to automatically start a data backup script (to USB or network
> >>> drive) at each shutdown of my computer.
> >>
> >> Rather than having the system call my backup/ archive scripts, I have my
> >> backup/ archive scripts call 'shutdown' when they're done.
> >
> > I'm not the OP, but, wonderful idea! And, of course, I can pass a
> > parameter to my backup script--one case to shutdown after the backup,
> > and one not to shutdown!
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