How best to reboot or power off Zoneminder servers quickly and gracefully?

[mysterylectricity]

I kept noticing a bunch of pesky errors in the log about not being able to stat /tmp/zm, socket errors, etc.

But once in a great while the logs would stay clean for days after a reboot. Seemed to come and go at random.

Eventually I hit on the idea of issuing "service zoneminder stop" before rebooting and that seemed to put a stop to all the errors.

What's the best way to reboot and power off a zoneminder server, respectively, with single commands? Gracefully, but without unneeded delay.

Probably in the docs somewhere, I really should read them cover to cover sometime.

TIA!

[bbunge]

sudo reboot

About as simple as it gets. Systemd will shut Zoneminder down before rebooting

[mysterylectricity]

Thanks bbunge, yeah I more or less figured that out a day or two after posting. What had me fooled was that merely shutting down ZM via "service" seemed to take longer than a "reboot", so I assumed reboot was shutting down ungracefully. I think more the truth is that shuttinng down ZM via service took longer than _expected_, and reboot was faster than expected, so I subconciusly ignore thgat facts in the face of my expectations.

And the errors still come and go regardless so that was a a false lead, too.

[rockedge]

those errors come and go on all my systems and I still have not tracked down why and when....but everything on those ZM installs work well regardless of those errors...or so it seems.