Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:34:24 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: reel@sympatico.ca, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/27440: Undocumented option "-l" for reboot(8) Message-ID: <20010523183424.A29448@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20010523161104.A32846@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:11:04PM %2B0100 References: <200105201110.f4KBAbm71358@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010523161104.A32846@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:11:04PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:10:37AM -0700, ru@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > Synopsis: Undocumented option "-l" for reboot(8) > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: ru > > State-Changed-When: Sun May 20 04:10:09 PDT 2001 > > State-Changed-Why: > > This option is intentionally left undocumented. > > Any reason why it should stay undocumented? Solaris 8 has > > -l Suppress sending a message to syslogd about who executed reboot. > OTOH, System V Release 4 (Unixware 7) has: : -l : Logs a message to the system log indicating who rebooted the : system. This option is marked as undocumented in the code. Using this option on a regular basis would hurt last(1) as it computes some dates using this mark. The only purpose of having -l is to avoid duplicate "shutdown" and "reboot" marks to wtmp(5). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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