shutdown on BSD and Linux

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

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