From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 10:59:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D92337B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:59:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail4.atl.registeredsite.com (mail4.atl.registeredsite.com [64.224.219.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33EB143EC5 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:59:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Received: from asarian-host.net (asarian-host.net [216.122.74.112]) by mail4.atl.registeredsite.com (8.12.2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h04IxKm8022103 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 13:59:21 -0500 Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email addresses for asarians can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by asarian-host.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) id h04IxKa65156 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:59:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Posted-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:59:20 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Message-Id: <200301041859.H04IXJS65145@asarian-host.net> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:59:16 +0100 X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net Subject: Not a bug? X-Trace: a1Ktr8AIDb89e5d8Apt0nx96C1gWFPkCf50J7xwgieWkrm+FPzN28rwy92gYWb0d X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAPhcvCDFqW1BleBN9AQHKDQf/U5Ya/b4dpndFyfDXY3Aed1WPKSzlIrC4 RR1NAc8KoDZ5QNwtoaAvqTqsyh6yZghJR22xYxpeOC49V2s33jGFAKs76dAFFKgv 1acAaRBpveqmlmitZYSkMt4ncnoKZeCtpnroGHSDETLNdI0NTyaIN98HbLrIZAuf GqMQUJNWaxYV4na+2wq+QkbRM0BFPM9ZBReWj/8XSSaBT9pimTf99ZFG/C/vGYtg 9dLfYLAOnoxYBaIlgzwGqv7siOLygy5iswvyhyfmQgpxYrFNpTFM5XbQY47nCdCg OqhzCF80GHqh1mCg/zVkBkaTQVSxIg7/efUHgbpLrZahmcWNqFz2Fw== =po05 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I will not call this a "bug", because usually when people cry bug they just mean they did not understand a certain behavior. :) Still, when I "su -l" to root from, say, the user "maintenance", and then issue a "shutdown -p now", the shutdown message sent around does not appear to come from "root", but from the underlying "maintenance" user: ---------------------------- shutdown: [pid 4184] asarian-host: {root} % *** FINAL System shutdown message from maintenance@asarian-host.net *** System going down IMMEDIATELY ---------------------------- (Uh-oh, there goes my uptime!) Should it be an anomaly, it would certainly be one I can live with. :) For the sake of curiosity, though, why is the shutdown message not being broadcasted from "root" in this case? Thanks, - Mark System Administrator Asarian-host.org --- "If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message