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Re: shutdown on BSD and Linux


From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:52:11 +0200
Mail-followup-to: users@crater.dragonflybsd.org

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:28:44AM +0000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> I've long had a question on the shutdown process.  Linux systems run a
> separate shutdown script for every process that was started at boot,
> and can take a minute or two to shutdown.  FreeBSD and Dragonfly, as
> far as I can tell, just kill all processes, flush buffers, unmount
> filesystems and shutdown/poweroff, which takes about 5 seconds.

If you use shutdown to reboot, it runs the scripts from /etc/rc.d as
well, but most simply don't do anything.

Joerg



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