From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10265 invoked from network); 2 May 2004 11:43:03 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 May 2004 11:43:03 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BKFN8-0006Oe-So for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 11:43:02 +0000 Received: (qmail 22920 invoked by uid 50004); 2 May 2004 11:43:02 +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 15206 invoked from network); 2 May 2004 11:43:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 13:40:08 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e58f4f.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040307 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] strange gentoo shutdown sequence X-Archives-Salt: 5148121f-37c9-46f7-8a2e-4a27d6676ede X-Archives-Hash: 53dbb139f4ea0ca2de396496fbebb6c4 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. Thx Sven -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list