From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27772 invoked from network); 2 May 2004 17:32:24 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 May 2004 17:32:24 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BKKpE-0006ox-JB for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 17:32:24 +0000 Received: (qmail 11777 invoked by uid 50004); 2 May 2004 17:32:24 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 10467 invoked from network); 2 May 2004 17:32:24 +0000 Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 12:32:23 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo development Message-ID: <20040502173223.GA7160@linux1.home> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] strange gentoo shutdown sequence X-Archives-Salt: efd1c2a9-d9d1-4a9c-8fb7-6b5d4553204c X-Archives-Hash: c2c2c6abc703cbd9d75da062498688fa -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 01:40:08PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote: > hi, > > gentoo usually does the following if i execute halt or reboot: > > sending all processes the TERM signal > sending all processes the KILL signal > stopping xdm ... > stopping alsasound ... > etc.... > > in may eyes, this has to be the other way round: > first shutdown all deamons properly with the init.d-script, and than > send the remaining processes the TERM and KILL signals. > > > why does gentoo handle things the way it does? redhat etc. do it the > other way i described. using the init.d-script sounds more resonable to me. I just confirmed this. When you do a shutdown or a reboot or halt, the processes are killed by the kill and term signals before the services are actually stopped with the /etc/init.d/* scripts. Is there a reason for this or should it be the other way around? William -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAlTCnblQW9DDEZTgRAhpFAKCHZKYcQ7pf3cW8k8cFSIwCSYOOxACfWb3z FwWqFEXh6xyd6I8prHhvi6E= =31D5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list