On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:16:50PM +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote: > Tomas wrote: > > 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 myself can't say if it's necessary, but it is probably good practice. > > I do notice that OpenBSD does not use anything similar to System V > runlevels (which may or may not be good to avoid) but does provide > /etc/rc.shutdown: > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.shutdown > > > I've never saw anybody do that... > > Checking on my systems, I see that none of the packages that run daemons > use it, even the ones installed from the official packages and ports. > In fact, rc.shutdown appears completely empty. Perhaps you have found > an error / oversight? > > Regards, > -Lars
postgresql-server uses it.. -- Przemyslaw Nowaczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CS student @ Poznan University of Technology http://www.student.put.poznan.pl/~przemyslaw.nowaczyk/
