Hi!
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:48:54PM +0300, Tomas wrote:

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>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).

Probably most programs that need non-trivial cleanup handle SIGTERM

appropriately.
Kind regards,
Hannah.