Thanks, I will start using rc.shutdown more often :)

Craig Skinner wrote:
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> Tomas wrote:
>> 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).
>>
>
> $ man rc.shutdown
>
> Up to you. I shut down almost all daemons in it. Again, you can call 
> your own scripts, e.g:
>
> echo -n ' mailman'
> /usr/local/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -q stop
> sleep 30
>
> echo -n ' mailgraph'
> /usr/local/site/sbin/mailgraphctl stop > /dev/null
>
> echo -n ' squid'
> /usr/local/sbin/squid -k shutdown
>
> echo -n ' dovecot'
> pkill dovecot
>
> echo -n ' apache'
> apachectl stop
>
> echo -n ' postfix'
> /usr/local/site/sbin/postfixctl stop
>
> echo -n ' viagrad'
> su -m _viagrad  /usr/local/site/libexec/viagrad/viagrad stop
>
> echo -n ' named'
> rndc stop
>
> echo '.'