Hi! On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:48:54PM +0300, Tomas wrote: >Watching the thread about startup script I thought of a question about >shutdown script. Is it necessary to shutdown certain services when >machine goes down? Like for example mysql, dovecot, clamav, amavis or >openvpn. I've never saw anybody do that. Lots of people on their >manuals, tutorials or posts writes how to start mysql, but none of then >writes a shutdown script. So maybe it is not so necessary? (But then >again, mysql is a database engine, and databases should be handle with >care).
Probably most programs that need non-trivial cleanup handle SIGTERM appropriately. Kind regards, Hannah.
