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From: philip@vogon.cetia.fr (Philip Peake)
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Subject: Re: Is there something like 'shutdownrc' at SunOS 4.1 ?
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.080920.686@cetia.fr>
Date: 5 Jun 91 08:09:20 GMT
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In article <1214@keele.keele.ac.uk>, csd35@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
|> 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.

Am I missing something ? (maybe, since I keep as far away as possible
from SunOS). The replacement shell script would be something like:

Grab a message from the user - default to a generic message if only CR.
/etc/wall the message
sleep a little while
zap oracle
zap ingres
zap whatever
last warning before shutdown starts
sleep a bit
/etc/shutdown.bin

This would work - no ?

Philip