I have a brand new installation and only consist of S20reboot. So according to your article above, if i create a script called S10test which could contain something like :
Then if I give it correct premission i.e. chmod a+rwx S10test. Tzen can I do shutdown now -r and I should see it been executed. Is this correct??
That's right, although the execution of your script may happen so fast, you won't see the output.
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Originally Posted by rtm
Scripts starting with S are executed on Startup. Scripts starting with K are executed on shutdown. So, no, your script will be seen on boot, not on shutdown.
This can be quite confusing. Last week I had to dig into this matter, because I had to create my own init-script from scratch and I stumbled upon the following text.
Quote:
From Internet link : The name of each symbolic link begin with either a K or an S. The K links are processes that are killed on that runlevel, while those beginning with an S are started.
So the S10test script will in fact be executed prior to the actual reboot.
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
fastboot
fastboot(8) System Manager's Manual fastboot(8)NAME
fastboot - Reboots the system without checking file systems
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/fastboot [-lnq]
DESCRIPTION
The fastboot command reboots the system without checking file systems. The program creates the fastboot file then invokes the reboot pro-
gram. The system start-up script contains instructions to look for the fastboot file. If present, the script removes the file and skips
the invocation of the fsck command.
You must have root privileges to use this command.
FLAGS
Does not log the reboot or place a shutdown record in the accounting file. Does not sync the disks or log the reboot. Performs a quick
reboot without first shutting down running processes; does not log the reboot.
FILES
Specifies the command path
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: fsck(8), rc0(8), rc2(8), rc3(8), reboot(8), shutdown(8), syslogd(8)
Functions: sync(2), syslog(3) delim off
fastboot(8)