Re: Autostart in Linux (S.U.S.E)

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Rainer Klute wrote:

> >You can have in the shutdown script which will issue a request on 
> >/Admin/Exit to save everything. With the right Authentification of course.
> >One such perl script has been posted a long time ago on this list.
> >see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-jigsaw/msg05521.html
> 
> What if the system crashes and the shutdown script cannot run 
> properly? Will Jigsaw be able to recover from events like these?
> 

From alpha5 there is the possibility of recovering from a crash, as the 
server saves its state from time to time. But, as something may be 
changed just before the crash it is not 100% guarantee that it will be 
exactly the same state. It limits the risks. 
From my experience (killing a lot of servers with ctrl-c), I never had a 
server that didn't want to restart after this kind of shutdown.

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