At 4:10 PM -0600 8/15/07, Orion Poplawski wrote: >Dave Jones wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:14:25AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> > >> > speaking of cpuspeed... why does it have a script that runs at shutdown? >> > sounds like a total waste of cpu cycles and disk accesses and spuriously >> > making boot times longer.. since really what would it to? >> >> Sometimes it's useful to be able to 'service cpuspeed stop'. >> AIUI, the problem is we don't have a way to discriminate between that >> use case, and shutting down. > >service cpuspeed stop basically just runs "/etc/rc.d/init.d/cpuspeed >stop". That's independent from having a /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K99cpuspeed >script that runs at shutdown. However, the other thing that the stop >does is remove the /var/lock/subsys/cpuspeed file. These files are >pretty tightly integrated to our service system and forces most services >to get explicitly stopped. Might be worth examining how useful the lock >file is and whether *every* init script should use it. Don't forget other runlevel changes, though for cpuspeed that's only to runlevel 1. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
