On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, rob wrote:

> When rolling scripts for rc.d you can specify a command that is executed
> when /etc/rc.d/script start is executed.
> I presume that a kill -QUIT is used when a /etc/rc.d/script stop is
> executed?

Have a look at /etc/rc.subr -- it is documented in there. (Search for
"stop".)

> Anyway to get to the point I have a number of services that use separate
> scripts for starting up, shutting down and restarting e.g. startup.sh &
> shutdown.sh how can I modify my custom /etc/rc.d/scriptxyz to execute
> the appropriate script for start, stop, restart etc..?

Look at the many examples in /etc/rc.d/.

 grep stop_cmd /etc/rc.d/*

Good luck,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/