diff -u dhcpcd-2.0.5/src/client.c dhcpcd-2.0.6/src/client.c
--- dhcpcd-2.0.5/src/client.c	2006-04-27 22:18:29.000000000 +0100
+++ dhcpcd-2.0.6/src/client.c	2006-06-05 11:47:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -99,8 +91,6 @@
 int	deleteDhcpCache();
 void	execute_on_change(char *prm);
 
-int	execOnStop	= 1;
-
 int			dhcpSocket;
 int			udpFooSocket;
 int			prev_ip_addr;
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 dhcpOptions		DhcpOptions;
 dhcpInterface		DhcpIface;
 udpipMessage		UdpIpMsgSend,UdpIpMsgRecv;
-jmp_buf			env;
+sigjmp_buf		env;
 unsigned char		ClientHwAddr[ETH_ALEN];
 
 const struct ip *ipSend=(struct ip *)((struct udpiphdr *)UdpIpMsgSend.udpipmsg)->ip;
@@ -1307,8 +1308,6 @@
   if ( ntp_renamed )
     rename(ntp_file_sv, ntp_file);
 
-  if ( ! execOnStop ) return &dhcpStart;
-
   if ( ! stat("/sbin/resolvconf", &buf) )
     {
 #ifdef EMBED
diff -u dhcpcd-2.0.5/src/signals.c dhcpcd-2.0.6/src/signals.c
--- dhcpcd-2.0.5/src/signals.c	2006-04-27 22:18:29.000000000 +0100
+++ dhcpcd-2.0.6/src/signals.c	2006-06-05 11:47:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@
 extern char		*IfNameExt;
 extern char		*ConfigDir;
 extern int              Persistent;
-extern jmp_buf		env;
+extern sigjmp_buf	env;
 extern void		*(*currState)();
 extern int		execOnStop;
 
+sigjmp_buf			jmpTerm;
+
 /*****************************************************************************/
 void killPid(sig)
 int sig;
@@ -127,16 +129,15 @@
 	}
 	logger(LOG_ERR, "terminating on signal %d",sig);
     }
-  if (!Persistent || sig != SIGTERM)
-    {
-      /* Disable execing programs on SIGTERM as if any services get restarted then
-       * they get hung and are un-useable even though they do get restarted and
-       * apparently without error. Fix this, as it as a dhcpcd error! */
-      if (sig == SIGTERM) execOnStop = 0;
-      dhcpStop();
-    }
+  if (sig == SIGTERM) siglongjmp(jmpTerm, 1);
+  if (!Persistent) dhcpStop();
   deletePidFile();
-  exit(sig);
+
+  /* Exit with 0 if we were told to quit, otherwise the SIG code */
+  if (sig == SIGQUIT || sig == SIGINT || sig == SIGHUP)
+    exit(0);
+  else
+    exit(sig);
 }
 /*****************************************************************************/
 void signalSetup()
@@ -148,4 +149,11 @@
   action.sa_flags = 0;
   for (i=1;i<16;i++) sigaction(i,&action,NULL);
   sigaction(SIGCHLD,&action,NULL);
+
+  /* We do this so that we can call external programs safely from a SIGTERM */
+  if ( sigsetjmp(jmpTerm, 0xffff) ) {
+    if (!Persistent) dhcpStop();
+    deletePidFile();
+    exit(0);
+  }
 }