On 9/19/07, Stuart Henderson  wrote:

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> On 2007/09/19 14:48, 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've

> > never saw anybody do that.

>

> For most things, there's no need to worry at all.

>

> From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-shutdown.html,

> mysql does a controlled shutdown when it receives SIGTERM.

>

Thank you so much Stuart for your reply :-)
I have a similar doubt.

What happens when I have a lot of windows open in my fvwm2 and I click

on my desktop and click "Exit Fvwm2" ?
Will all the X11 applications be shutdown decently?

Or is it better to type "halt" in an xterm?

What is the right way to shutdown a desktop?
Thank you so much once again :-)
Kind regards
Siju