Re: initscript "feature" questions

[Jon Masters <jcm redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 14:25 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jon Masters (jonathan jonmasters org) said: 
> > Specifically, why is there the broken assumption that everything must
> > relate to a daemon (which is now called a subsystem), 
> 
> Huh?
> 
> > and that this must
> > be first running with a lock file before the killscript can run?
> 
> We only shut things down that have been started successfully (have a lock file.)

Right. But what if I want to run something on shutdown that's unrelated
to a daemon? And I want to do this from a package, so without manually
modifying the local rc config?

Jon.