* Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-19 14:02]: > 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).
any software which requires special shutdown handling ist busted. all processes get a SIGTERM on shutdown. the ones that need to do cleanup before they exit need to install a signal handler for that (and in general they do). -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
