these are patches which coem with the 2.78 rpm
# ls /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
sulogin-nologin.patch sysvinit-2.77-md5-be.patch
sysvinit-2.78-md5.patch sysvinit-2.78.tar.gz
sysvinit-2.74-man.patch sysvinit-2.78-halt.patch
sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch
charles
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Larry Grover wrote:
> I had gotten curious enough about this go to the source, too. I looked SysVinit up
>on Freshmeat, got an URL for the source (www.ibiblio.org), and downloaded the
>SysVinint-2.78.tar.gz.
>
> But after downloading and untarring, I couldn't find anything that looked like it
>would create these files (/halt, /poweroff). As it turns out, the comments inside
>the halt.c file (in the SysVinint-2.78 tarball I downloaded) identified it as version
>2.74, dated 24-Feb-1998. I guess I must have gotten an older version of the halt
>source. You looked at the source from the RH7.0 src.rpm? The section of code you
>quoted definitely isn't in the file I looked at.
>
> But anyway, thanks for figuring out the answer to my last question.
>
> The original issue, I think, was that someone (sorry, I don't remember who) wanted
>to know why upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0 changed the behavior of the `halt` command.
>
> __
> Larry Grover, PhD
> Assoc Prof of Physiology
> Marshall Univ Sch of Med
>
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:23:02 -0400 (EDT), Charles Galpin
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > yeah, but not much more use. So I downloaded the source, and see that in
> > halt.c the halt/poweroff command creates them. do_shutdown just calles
> > shutdown.
> >
> > if (c != '0' && c != '6') {
> > char *file;
> >
> > if (do_poweroff) {
> > file = strdup("/poweroff");
> > } else {
> > file = strdup("/halt");
> > }
> > close(open(file, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644));
> > free(file);
> >
> > do_shutdown(do_reboot ? "-r" : "-h", tm);
> > }
> >
> > So that answers that, but I have forgotten the orignal issue. How/when is
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt called? We know that calling halt -p or poweroff
> > will do what we want, and calling shutdown will not (unless the /poweroff
> > file is created), but I don't recall how we got started with this one :)
> >
> > My 6.2 box has a /usr/bin/shutdown script that seems to make all thsi work
> > ok - maybe this is the critical difference, as on my 7.0 box
> > /sbin/shutdown gets called directly instead.
> >
> > charles
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