Hi, yes, You are right - proper shutdown is important. This functionality
realizes script /etc/rc.shutdown fired during shutdown. I that place should be commands for all services which require shutdown command. I hope it is what You looking for ;) (sorry if it is to obvious true for You). Best regards, Artur On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:48:54 +0300, Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).
