On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 05:41:23PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Michael Meskes]
> > Just imagine a logger that is supposed to log all actions done while
> > shutting down the system or, as in my case, a daemon whose job it is
> > to monitor other daemons and, if they do not run anymore, either
> > restart that daemon or the whole system. It's fairly easy to make
> > the start action run late enough because there's a hierarchy already
> > there. But it is almost impossible to stop this daemon first without
> > listing all ~1000 facilities as to be stopped later.
>
> Werner, what is your opinion on allowing $all to work also for stop
> dependencies, to be able to stop scripts very early during shutdown?
> Michael Meskes ran into the need with the watchdog package, where he
> want to stop the service monitoring before any services are stopped.
Hmmm ... this is already on my todo but requires to move already sorted
scripts in the hierarchy. Or I increase the order nummer before
sorting.
Werner
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