[arch-general] checking runlevels in rc.shutdown

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a specific reason why rc.shutdown only shutsdown daemons if
> the previous runlevel was 3 or 5?
>
> It's the line that is:
> if [ "$PREVLEVEL" = "3" -o "$PREVLEVEL" = "5" ]; then
>
>
> I use both runlevel 4 and 5 (to use different login managers) and when
> shuting from 4 it will sometimes not shutdown clean.
>
>
> Can we actually do without this check for runlevels? It is
> additionally not compatible with Upstart, I understand Upstart is not
> supported in Arch in any way, but still more flexible rc.xxx scripts
> in Arch would be a good thing afterall.

I have a feeling this was done to mirror the rc.multi script (which is
what starts the DAEMONS array). But, you're right. If I boot into
single user mode (runlevel 1) and then start daemons manually,
rc.shutdown should should them down cleanly.

It seems fine to me to remove this check. Any nay sayers?