initscript "feature" questions

[Jon Masters]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 15:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jon Masters (jcm at redhat.com) said: 
> > > Create a SXX service that runs in runlevel 0/6, or add a /sbin/halt.local.
> > 
> > Right. I considered that, but this is not "starting" something, it's
> > shutting something down. In the end, I wound up having a useless start
> > action that touches a lockfile on startup, just so I can have a "stop"
> > action to take it down again :-)
> 
> What are you shutting down? If it's something to shut down, why isn't it
> being started correctly?

Actually this is something on RHEL4, I just notice the same behavior
exists in current Fedora too. I'm playing around linking kernel modules
on boot and shutdown - there's no service per se.

Jon.