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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:32:50 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: Addition to reboot(8): reboot / halt reasons
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:13:25AM +0200, Daniel Lang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Wes Peters wrote on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:05:40PM -0700:
> [..]
> > reboot and halt are BSD commands, shutdown SYSV-ish.  Shutdown has all 
> > those nice "professional" options to warn users, schedule a shutdown in 
> > a few minutes, etc.  Reboot and halt expect you to already know how to 
> > use at(1) and wall(1) to effect the same results, and to write a script 
> > if you really want to do that over and over again.
> [..]
> 
> I tend to disagree. AFAIK was shutdown part of BSD already in the
> early days.
> The usage differs from SysV shutdown, though. 
> IMHO SysV-ish would be to use "init <runlevel>".

Slightly more correct: telinit <runlevel>

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