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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:36:55 -0500
From:      Sean Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Addition to reboot(8): reboot / halt reasons
Message-ID:  <20030902043655.GA42977@edgemaster.zombie.org>
In-Reply-To: <1062469541.642.6.camel@prophecy.velum>
References:  <1062469541.642.6.camel@prophecy.velum>

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On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:25:42PM -0400, Christopher Nehren wrote:
> While playing around with Win2K3 recently, I noticed that it brings up a
> dialog at every reboot / shutdown and asks for a reason for said reboot
> / shutdown. So I was bored tonight, and decided to implement that
> feature in FreeBSD's reboot(8) with a -r flag. Here's a diff against a
> -CURRENT reboot.c, checked out about five minutes ago.

Err.. Wouldn't it just be easier to use the `shutdown` command?
I suggest you check `man 8 shutdown` out.

SYNOPSIS
     shutdown [-] [-h | -p | -r | -k] [-o [-n]] time [warning-message ...]

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