> I see how a clean shutdown might matter for, say, postgres. > But what is the point in shutting down cron, sshd, ntpd, or unbound > right before the system is going down anyway? > > Shutting down stuff like pflogd and syslogd before the system > is actually going down might even be harmful. > > If it turns out there are one or two base daemons where shutting > them down by running the rc.d(8) script is better than what > currently happens, those one or two could get special handling > in /etc/rc itself. But so far, i don't remember that anybody ever > saw a specific need for any of them.
I fully agree. -- Antoine
