# issues with start/shutdown scripts
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/issues-with-start-shutdown-scripts/29812
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer
**Created:** [May 18, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/issues-with-start-shutdown-scripts/29812 "2017-05-18T22:29:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@skunkboy](https://forums.suse.com/u/skunkboy)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/issues-with-start-shutdown-scripts/29812/1 "2017-05-18T22:29:38Z")
Since I can’t find any useful documentation on how to write shutdown/startup scripts for systemd itself, still using the following in scripts
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: somedaemon
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Description:
### END INIT INFO
Startup works fine after place somedaemon script into /etc/init.d and executing : systemctl enable somedaemon ; systemctl start somedaemon
shutdown execution does not seem to work so well, in face it isn’t getting shutdown. Is there something simple I’m missing?
Thanks,
matt
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### Author:  [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/issues-with-start-shutdown-scripts/29812/2 "2017-05-18T23:14:31Z")
On 05/18/2017 01:34 PM, skunkboy wrote:[color=blue]
> Since I can’t find any useful documentation on how to write
> shutdown/startup scripts for systemd itself, still using the following
> in scripts[/color]
What documentation have you found? What have you tried? In general the
service unit files are fairly simple; I worked through docs and examples a
couple years ago and found it pretty straight-forward, but since then I’ve
found I was lucky and that, like anything, it can depend on the scenario.
Knowing how your ‘somedaemon’ thing works is probably useful, as it
understanding its startup properly.
[color=blue]
> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
>
> # Provides: somedaemon
>
> # Required-Start:
>
> # Required-Stop:
>
> # Default-Start: 3 5
>
> # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
>
> # Description:
>
> ### END INIT INFO[/color]
I presume this daemon does not have any service/system dependencies, so
that’s interesting, and probably not something I’d emulate. Most services
I’ve seen at least have something like $local\_fs or $network in there.
[color=blue]
> Startup works fine after place somedaemon script into /etc/init.d and
> executing : systemctl enable somedaemon ; systemctl start somedaemon
> shutdown execution does not seem to work so well, in face it isn’t
> getting shutdown. Is there something simple I’m missing?[/color]
Care to share the output from your shutdown attempt? I presume you are
using ‘stop’ and not ‘shutdown’ for the service.
Also, one of the benefits of systemd is great logging of what happens when
a service tires to do something. What does the following show:
[CODE[
systemctl status somedaemon
[/CODE]
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### Author:  [@skunkboy](https://forums.suse.com/u/skunkboy)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/issues-with-start-shutdown-scripts/29812/3 "2017-05-22T21:53:41Z")
I left it generic and didn’t fill in any details. Our oracle dbas say it is working now?
Anyways thanks for the response 🙂
Matt