Re: How to run a script before shutdown?

From	Robert Latest <boblatest@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to run a script before shutdown?
Date	2016-11-14 18:50 +0100
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Hi Sven,

thanks, that's 99% of what I need (I'd found that thread before but didn't
really read it all the way because it looked like discussion going
nowhere). It still needs some tweaking, though, because it runs the backup
script whenever multiuser mode is left -- no matter if it's a shutdown or
reboot. In practise this doesn't make any significant difference though.

Regards,
robert

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2016-11-13 20:34 +0100, Robert Latest wrote:
>
> > I want to automatically start a data backup script (to USB or network
> > drive) at each shutdown of my computer. I did some research into this
> > and found that several people have the same problem as I do. But the
> > threads I found petered out into discussions of several ways of doing
> > this, working for some people and not for others.  So here I am
> > wondering if there is a canonical, proper and reliable method of doing
> > this.
> >
> > The script needs to run when a shutdown (but not a reboot) is started
> > while networking and USB mounts are still up, and (preferably)
> > multi-user mode has turned off. Perusing the systemd documentation I
> > found all kinds of good examples of how to start stuff in a well-ordered
> > manner to get the system up, but for shutting down there is quite little
> > information.
> >
> > How is it done?
>
> There is a possible answer on superuser.com[1], scroll towards the end.
>
> HTH,
>     Sven
>
>
> 1. http://superuser.com/questions/1016827/how-do-i-run-a-script-before-
> everything-else-on-shutdown-with-systemd
>
>

Thread

How to run a script before shutdown? Robert Latest <boblatest@gmail.com> - 2016-11-13 20:40 +0100
  Re: How to run a script before shutdown? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-11-13 21:30 +0100
    Re: How to run a script before shutdown? Robert Latest <boblatest@gmail.com> - 2016-11-14 18:50 +0100
  Re: How to run a script before shutdown? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-11-14 02:40 +0100
    Re: How to run a script before shutdown? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-14 13:40 +0100
      Re: How to run a script before shutdown? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-11-14 16:30 +0100
        Re: How to run a script before shutdown? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-14 18:10 +0100
        Re: A_Message_Regarding_Your_DEBT_Situation. vs78 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-11-14 22:30 +0100
          Re: A_Message_Regarding_Your_DEBT_Situation. vs78 Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-14 23:20 +0100
            Re: A_Message_Regarding_Your_DEBT_Situation. vs78 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-11-16 12:50 +0100
              Re: A_Message_Regarding_Your_DEBT_Situation. vs78 Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-11-16 13:00 +0100
  Re: How to run a script before shutdown? Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-11-14 11:30 +0100
    Re: How to run a script before shutdown? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2016-11-14 11:50 +0100

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