On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:09:24AM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> Ceri Davies writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:40:20PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, you also have to talk *to* the UPS to get there. It's
> > > not all that simple to do as a kernel service.
> >
> > Can't svc.startd do this? There's already magic in the do_uadmin()
> > function that calls /usr/sbin/killall, so it should be possible to hook
> > in some magic there.
>
> Sure it can do that; the question is how _best_ to hook it in. UPS
> support isn't a native part of the operating system itself, so it's
> likely that this needs to have some sort of "plug-in" type of design.
> One way I've been suggesting to do it is to have a (presumably unique)
> "run me last on shutdown" service flag.
I'm completely with you. I'm suggesting that svc.startd is the best place
to put the hook rather than the kernel.
Ceri
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