detecting reboot in rc script

tomalok · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 30

I have an rc script that takes a long time to 'stop'. However, when rebooting or shutting down, the stuff that 'stop' does doesn't really need to be done.

Is there a way with the gentoo rc script system (etc.) that I can detect whether or not the system's going to halt/reboot?

lx · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 11:18 am Post subject:

runlevel returns previous and current runlevel, so you could parse the outcome to check the current runlevel to see if it's 0 or 6. The man runlevel states that it's also available as variable RUNLEVEL and PREVLEVEL, but I haven't checked this,

Hope this helps,

Cya lX.
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