On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there a specific reason why rc.shutdown only shutsdown daemons if > the previous runlevel was 3 or 5? > > It's the line that is: > if [ "$PREVLEVEL" = "3" -o "$PREVLEVEL" = "5" ]; then > > > I use both runlevel 4 and 5 (to use different login managers) and when > shuting from 4 it will sometimes not shutdown clean. > > > Can we actually do without this check for runlevels? It is > additionally not compatible with Upstart, I understand Upstart is not > supported in Arch in any way, but still more flexible rc.xxx scripts > in Arch would be a good thing afterall. I have a feeling this was done to mirror the rc.multi script (which is what starts the DAEMONS array). But, you're right. If I boot into single user mode (runlevel 1) and then start daemons manually, rc.shutdown should should them down cleanly. It seems fine to me to remove this check. Any nay sayers?
