> 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
