On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:20:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> I have a daemon, written in C++, that must >> stop working immediately on a system shutdown. >> in its startup script, I put: >> >> # chkconfig: 35 90 1 >> >> I presume the "1" means it should be among the >> first to be stopped, but it goes on too long. >> >> Any suggestions? Perhaps a system call that >> I could add that would inform it that the >> system is going down? >> >> Thanks for your help. >> Mike. >> >> > Try changing the 1 to 01. You may also want to read about the > init-script format in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.7/sysvinitfiles. > [...] I think the 1 is ok: root@mbrc32]# ls /etc/rc6.d/ | grep proc K01proc_d Mike.