Hi, > In the process of looking at how this works, I noticed that some of > the "stop" initscripts are not being run. Specifically, it appears > that /etc/rc.d/rc doesn't run the K?? script for a service unless > there was a /var/lock/subsys/$service file created by the service > "start" script. This seems like a nice optimization for skipping > shutdown for services that don't need it, speeding up the shutdown > procedure. That's a nice observation. We should look into taking advantage of this I think. > The only one here that seems to be a concern is diskdump, because it's > "stop" section appears necessary at first glance, since it stops > devices and unloads modules: Can you file a bug about this? --Ray