* Tomas  [2007-09-19 14:02]:

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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).

any software which requires special shutdown handling ist busted.
all processes get a SIGTERM on shutdown. the ones that need to do

cleanup before they exit need to install a signal handler for that (and

in general they do).
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