According to Curt Sampson:
>
>Yes. If you ask any daemon or group to shutdown, the system shuts
>down all its dependents before it shuts down that daemon/group.
>(Every startup script takes `start' or `stop' as an argument.)
>
>This means that if you, say, shut down your database, it will make
>sure your web server and radius server which depend on that database
>are correctly shut down first.
>

Ahhh COOL!  Sounds like a very worthwhile thing to have in place :-)

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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