On Wednesday 01 August 2007 12:57:33 pm Adalbert Prokop wrote: > > The file /etc/init.d/halt calls /sbin/halt.local if it exists. But it does > so rather late in the shutdown process - maybe too late for your needs... > * Thank you very much - this may be just what I need * For my needs this will be perfect - I have encrypted /home but I did not have luck getting encrypted / like my ubuntu friends - so I need to cryptographically clean /tmp and /var/tmp on shutdown on my laptop for security purposes. I plan to use a script which uses shred and tmpwatch to clear them out. Thank you ... I will try this.