On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:16:50PM +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote:

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> 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..
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