On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 15:46, Brian Parish wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 20:29, Stormjumper wrote: > > was suddenly curious about this. > > > > when shutting down the Mandrake, > > and suddenly realised not all messages were made equal. > > > > some were listed as "stopping" while others "shutting down" > > > > eg. > > Stopping crond: [ OK] > > Shutting down APM daemon: [ OK] > > > > are there any significance to why they are listed differently? > > > > thanks > > Probably not that significant a difference, but I suspect that > "stopping" means effectively killing the process, while "shutting down" > means sending a message to the process to ask it nicely to tidy up, > switch off the lights and lock the door on the way out. > > Of course those processes that don't respond to the invitation get > killed at the end of the shutdown script - that's when killall gets > invoked. > > Brian
Mine never say "Stopping" or "Killing" !!!!! (Actually, I've changed all my messages to say things like "squashing", "stomping", "sniping", "assassinating" - the list goes on... (grin) -- Mon Nov 25 10:45:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"
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