My shutdown script won't run

g4c9z · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 178

Hello,

I am trying to get a script to run whenever my computer shuts down (enters runlevel 0). I put this in /etc/inittab:

ht:0:wait:/root/bin/onhalt

But it didn't run. When I typed the command normally it did. How can that be?

What's the proper way to run a program at shutdown? Maybe doing that would work instead.

jftuga · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:54 am Post subject:

You could incorporate your code into /etc/init.d/halt.sh or into /etc/conf.d/local.stop

-John

g4c9z · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 178

Thanks. I got it working now. The problem was that I put the entry at the end of inittab. Gentoo already had another script being run for runlevel 0, and since the commands are run in the order they appear in inittab, that one ran first. It also turns off my computer, eliminating any hope of my command running. When I put it at the start of the file it worked.

I guess you have to be careful with these things.