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To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: proper shutdown command
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Chip Wiegand wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:20:05 -0600
> Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> wrote:
> 
> > Reading the manpage for shutdown and for halt:
> >
> > HALT sends all running processes a SIGTERM and then a SIGKILL if
> > needed
> >
> > SHUTDOWN runs through the INIT shutdown scripts
> >
> > What does this mean? If ALL your processes can be shutdown via a
> > SIGTERM then you're fine, but if you have processes like a MySQL db or
> > something which needs a special shutdown command passed to it in order
> > to exit cleanly or process something, this will not be executed and
> > data corruption or something else nasty "could" occur.
> >
> > Hope that helped.
> >
> > Henrik
> 
> That helps, thanks. So, I should be using shutdown instead of halt,
> regardless of halt being quicker to type. :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Chip W.

If it is too much to type, why don't you make an alias, that can even be
shorter than halt? :-)

Best regards,
Paul

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