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  wrote:

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> 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).