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From: csd35@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Is there something like 'shutdownrc' at SunOS 4.1 ?
Message-ID: <1214@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 29 May 91 08:11:59 GMT
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From article <868@cadlab.sublink.ORG>, by albani@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Lanfranco Albani):
> smeets@speedy.ada.cci.de (Vincent Smeets) writes:
>>I have looked at the 'shutdown' program itself, but that is no
>>shellscript so I can't change anything.
> 
> Easy, make your own! :-)
> Rename /etc/shutdown as /etc/shutdown.bin, write down a script like this:


Nope, that's not really as useful as shutdown running a script.  Suppose
we run an Oracle server, then what we want is the Oracle server to shut
down at shutdown time, not before anyone has had the shutdown message.
It would be really useful to have shutdown execute a script so that
servers can be neatly closed down at the right moment.
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