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 '.'