Bug#959860: initscripts: Please provide shutdown-equivalent to rc.local

[Patrik Schindler]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.93-8
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Please integrate this patch to have stuff done at system shutdown.

My reason to use it is a hercules instance in a screen session, started by cron
@reboot for a certain user. Doing this completely in an initscript is hard, but
initiating an orderly shutdown to hercules at the right time is easy.

--- rc.local.orig	2020-05-06 10:50:43.230690277 +0200
+++ rc.local	2020-05-06 10:45:17.252094001 +0200
@@ -24,6 +24,16 @@
 	fi
 }
 
+do_stop() {
+	if [ -x /etc/rc.local.shutdown ]; then
+	        [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_begin_msg "Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)"
+		/etc/rc.local.shutdown
+		ES=$?
+		[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg $ES
+		return $ES
+	fi
+}
+
 case "$1" in
     start)
 	do_start
@@ -32,10 +42,14 @@
         echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
         exit 3
         ;;
-    stop|status)
+    status)
         # No-op
         exit 0
         ;;
+    stop)
+	do_stop
+        exit 0
+        ;;
     *)
         echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2
         exit 3

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.30-3
ii  debianutils     4.8.6.1
ii  lsb-base        10.2019051400
ii  mount           2.33.1-0.1
ii  sysv-rc         2.93-8
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.93-8

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.44.5-1+deb10u3
ii  psmisc     23.2-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/tmpfs changed [not included]

-- no debconf information