On 14:48 Wed 19 Sep , Tomas wrote: > Hi list, > > 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). >
At least MySQL should have told you how to shutdown when installing it. rc.shutdown(8)