On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 11:15 AM Andriy Gapon, <a...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 01/08/2019 19:12, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 10:53 AM Rodney W. Grimes > > <freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net <mailto:freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Is it possible in an rc script to distinguish between a manual stop > > > (e.g., service foo stop) and a stop during a system shutdown (via > > > rc.shutdown) ? > > > Are there any marker variables for that? > > > Or something in the global system state? > > > > Not that I can think of, but I like this idea, > > I am sure that use cases exist. > > > > > > What is the use case that needs to disambiguate the two cases... > > I have one use case in mind and it's a truly special case. > I want rc.d/watchdogd to gracefully stop watchdogd and to disable the > watchdog timer when the stop action is requested manually. And I want > it to stop watchdogd and set the watchdog timer to a special shutdown > timeout during the shutdown. If the special timeout is configured, of > course. > A horribly hackish workaround could be to do a "pgrep shutdown" and "pgrep reboot" and "pgrep halt" in the stop function of the RC script. If one of those those processes exist, then a system shutdown/reboot is in progress. Not elegant, but could be workable until something nicer is added. Cheers, Freddie Typos courtesy of my phone's keyboard. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-rc@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-rc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
