Add clarifying /dev/console comment to rc.shutdown

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/skel/rc.shutdown b/skel/rc.shutdown
index d01786d..4608be7 100755
--- a/skel/rc.shutdown
+++ b/skel/rc.shutdown
@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@
 ### Ideally, it should be a single call to the service manager,
 ### telling it to bring all the services down.
 
+### If your s6-linux-init-maker invocation was made with the -1
+### option, messages from rc.shutdown will appear on /dev/console
+### as well as be logged by the catch-all logger.
+### If your s6-linux-init-maker invocation did NOT include the -1
+### option, messages from rc.shutdown will only be logged by the
+### catch-all logger and will NOT appear on /dev/console. In order
+### to print them to /dev/console instead, you may want to
+### uncomment the following line:
+# exec >/dev/console 2>&1
+
 ### If your services are managed by sysv-rc:
 ### also remove the K11reboot link from /etc/rc6.d to prevent
 ### sysv-rc from rebooting prematurely - because sysvinit does