Hello, Currently, s6-linux-init-shutdownd executes these files with their standard output and error redirected to the catch-all logger's FIFO. The daemon itself redirects its own to /dev/console only before creating the stage 4 script. So, in the absence of errors, only the "sending all processes the TERM signal..." and "sending all processes the KILL signal..." messages are seen on the console.
However, in most circumstances I can think of, messages from rc.shutdown and rc.shutdown.final, or error messages from commands in the stage 4 script, will never be seen by the user, because the machine is in the process of shutting down, and /run/uncaught-logs is on a tmpfs, so it vanishes when the process completes. Therefore, this is kind of like having stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null. Wouldn't it be better if s6-linux-init-shutdownd ran both rc.shutdown and the entire stage 4 script with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/console instead? Except maybe in the case of receiving the 'S' command on the control FIFO? Alternatively, one could use the catch-all logger variant that echoes logged messages to /dev/console (created by s6-linux-init-maker's '-1' option), or perform redirections directly in rc.shutdown and rc.shutdown.final. The first alternative, however, affects logging for all processes. If the latter alternative is the preferred way, then I think the example rc.* scripts installed in the skeldir (/etc/s6-linux-init/skel by default) could contain commented stdout and stderr redirections and an accompanying explanation, to make readers aware that they might be needed. Thanks, G.
