Fwd: Graphical Shutdown

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:29 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:12:05 -0600
> Richi Plana <myfedora at richip.dhs.org> wrote:
> 
> > If we don't necessarily have to "shut down" the service when shutting
> > down, do you mean that services should just do the proper thing when
> > sent the appropriate signal(7)? Like a uniform way of being signalled
> > to shut down? (an analogy would be destructors in OOP)
> 
> Many of the services just simply kill the pid.  The final part of a
> system shutdown would take care of that.  The added time to run the
> service script and source all the functions and display words to the
> screen is just needless overhead.
> 

As notting just pointed out to me - we do need to have the right thing
happen for going to run level 1, though.

-sv