initscript "feature" questions

[Bill Nottingham]

Jon Masters (jcm at redhat.com) said: 
> > Create a SXX service that runs in runlevel 0/6, or add a /sbin/halt.local.
> 
> Right. I considered that, but this is not "starting" something, it's
> shutting something down. In the end, I wound up having a useless start
> action that touches a lockfile on startup, just so I can have a "stop"
> action to take it down again :-)

What are you shutting down? If it's something to shut down, why isn't it
being started correctly?

Bill