* Felipe Sateler | If there are daemons which don't need to save state, or do useful work on | shutdown (and thus don't need an init script)... why bother with TERMing them | instead of directly KILLing them?
As an example, an ftpd or smtpd could then close the connection with «service going down» or similar instead of the socket just dying. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are