Okay, I've been futzing with this for about a month now, I think and there is
something I'm still doing wrong, because it doesn't work. I'm hoping that a
fresh set of eyes can spot the problem.
I have a script, called "endurance" which I want to log when the system is
booted and when it is shutdown. "endurance" can be found at the end of this
message.
I put endurance in /etc/rc.d/init.d with 755 permissions, owned by root.root.
I have an explicit call to "/etc/rc.d/init.d/endurance start" at the end of
rc.local. I would like to just make a link in rc3.d, but I haven't yet
because of the problem which I will explain.
I have links in rc0.d and rc6.d, called K98endurance. When I cd to /etc/rc0.d
and run "sudo ./K98endurance stop", the entry in the logfile is made. When I
shut the system down, no entry is made.
All the bootup entries are working just fine.
I have tried changing the links to K02endurance, but no change. The log is on
the / filesystem, so the shutdown messages aren't being mounted over. Why
aren't the entries being made at shutdown?
My only thought is that if the / filesystem is remounted ro before the script
is called. This remounting is done by "init.d/halt", which is linked by
rc0.d/S01halt and rc6.d/S01reboot. The kill files are suppoed to be run
before the startup files, I think, so the / filesystem should still be rw when
endurance runs...
Anyone have any pointers on this??
-Michael
/etc/rc.d/init.d/endurance:
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#!/bin/sh
# note the time of booting
logpath="/var/log/"
logfile="endurance"
case "$1" in
start)
# log the time of the system startup
echo -n "Booted at: " >> $logpath$logfile
date >> $logpath$logfile
;;
stop)
# record the uptime at shutdown
echo "Shut down: " >> $logpath$logfile
uptime >> $logpath$logfile
;;
status|restart|reload)
;;
*)
echo "lack of option" >> $logpath$logfile
esac
exit 0
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