Linux shutdown and Progress apps

[Grant Holman]

When I shut my Linux box down (i.e. shutdown now -h) should I be using a script to stop any Progress Servers first (e.g. DB, AdminServer, AppServer etc) or will these receive the KILL signal from the OS and shutdown cleanly anyway?

 

[Petr Vavrinec]

When I shut my Linux box down (i.e. shutdown now -h) should I be using a script to stop any Progress Servers first (e.g. DB, AdminServer, AppServer etc) or will these receive the KILL signal from the OS and shutdown cleanly anyway?

Yes to both questions
Every decent distribution during shutdown/reboot loops through running processes
and starts killing them; but it's a good (=politically correct) practice to make a script
that will shutdown the progress processes cleanly (preferably with progress tools).
BTW, I *do* have that script, too, on all of my servers...

HTH

Petr