On tor, 2009-09-17 at 14:21 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> I've implemented exactly the same logic Kevin describes for a past
> consulting customer and for multiple forms of shutdown scripts at
> Truviso.
> I would suggest the situation here is that it's so easy to script a
> custom
> solution that the other people who have done the same don't have any
> motivation to get that fixed upstream, which would take a bunch of
> arguing
> on this list to accomplish. Easier to just work around it and move
> on.
I grant you all that, but this sort of thing is best not slipped in via
a patch tagged LSB init script. If there is a problem to be fixed,
let's discuss it. If it can't be fixed, let's at least document it. Or
if you don't have the motivation, there are other places to host "custom
solutions".