Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:35:11 -1000 From: Al Plant <noc@hdk5.net> To: Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion Message-ID: <489DFF7F.6040902@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <62b856460808091322m38558ec2o1359fff91ae68a79@mail.gmail.com> References: <62b856460808091322m38558ec2o1359fff91ae68a79@mail.gmail.com>
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Michael Grant wrote: > More than once, through carelessness, and I'm sure I'm not alone, I > have inadvertently shutdown or rebooted the wrong machine. I'm sure > some of you know that all too familiar feeling when you see > "Connection closed" instead of your desktop being rebooted. > > I have a suggestion with respect to these commands. What if they > could be modified to require the hostname of the machine as their > first argument, otherwise, they refuse to bring the machine down? > > shutdown -h now > > becomes: > > shutdown example.com -h now > > and > > reboot > > becomes > > reboot example.com > > How hard would it to get the other *nix distributions to take up this up too? > > Michael Grant > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Aloha, I have set all my servers in the noc to shutdown -r now. This prevents me from locking my self out of servers as they are not in my office. I also set the tcsh command line to show path to the directory and the name of the host box i'm working on so I cant get confused. Maybe this will help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol
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