Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: strange gentoo shutdown sequence

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:33:29PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 12:25, splite-gentoo@××××××××××××××××.edu wrote:
> >
> > *shrug*  Maybe they kludged init so they wouldn't get support calls asking
> > why processes were being killed before the shutdown scripts ran.
>
> It is patched out.  I used to do the same thing with Slackware/LFS boxes
> simply because it made for fewer questions from users.

Couldn't you just have Clippy explain to them how init(8) works?

> You can always grab the .src.rpm and look at what patches they use
> yourself.

I would have, if I'd actually cared. :)

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