On 14:48 Wed 19 Sep     , 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).

>

At least MySQL should have told you how to shutdown when installing it.
rc.shutdown(8)