Michael D. Berger wrote: > I have a daemon that throws an exception whenever I shutdown or > reboot. However, stopping it with kill -15, or calling the > stop command in its start stop script (in /etc/init.d/) results > in correct termination. > > Therefore, might it be that shutdown or reboot call an initial script > in which I can stop the daemon, and then delay a little? Wait - what I get from what you say, above, is that it's not killed by its script in /etc/init.d: why not? What's the output from chkconfig --list <servicename>? mark