Shutdown from start scripts

[Matthew Flaschen]

Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:15:07PM -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
>>> Any ideas what I am missing here?  How do I properly reboot from
>>> a script in /etc/rcS.d?
>> I'm not sure, but I believe this is by design, and is /not/ specific to
>> upstart.
> 
> Thanks for the answer, Matthew.
> 
> What would be the benefit to design it this way?  There can be many
> reasons not to continue the boot if fsck fails.  For example:
> 
> - I might not have the time to repair the filesystem right now.
> - I might need some specific tool for the repair.
> - I might want to restore the filesystem from a backup with a live-CD
> 
> In all those situations, I definitely do _not_ want the boot to continue
> when I say "shutdown -r now".   This simply doesn't make sense, IMHO. 

Again, not certain about this.  However, I think the point may be that
the runlevel order has to remain constant.  One level should lead to the
next, for security reasons.  That means they can't allow a runlevel to
arbitrarily initiate shutdown, in case a higher runlevel has to run first.

Hopefully someone more qualified can explain the details.

Matthew Flaschen