On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 10:48, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > 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) Stephen,
This just proves that you are a sick man with too much time on his hands. ;-) Brian
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