From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Aug  9 20:22:01 2008
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F4E106568E
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sat,  9 Aug 2008 20:22:01 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from michael.grant@gmail.com)
Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.170])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E808FC13
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sat,  9 Aug 2008 20:22:01 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from michael.grant@gmail.com)
Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so1185599wfg.7
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
	h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender
	:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding
	:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth;
	bh=JKf4uuF8OXixbDMd+BO9gE8JLA89T3mHmv0zNroErbU=;
	b=R7bN4PHuAQExyn3oVk7lcqzAbM18iQlpPz0lUbzTvRxXHLqfqgNlxOkvgci3wjz9Rg
	WVMF5XGd6Mcwt2OF2TlGgJCbqnXOWQ6PwATygK6ayB3SnuZTNyd+x6oYpT98uPakE7AD
	cpdtOIgP3aqSOz90Y7rSsQ7TM5mpiZaGfS74E=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
	h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth;
	b=aSgzwNpd8I0eFmpnWunLmbnacz6x/IF6QkE6EueiNpha9O/iNskFZd5adIMa5zRwan
	80oVY0g6l/lTDjiop3STVKI/bXhBLkCEdwWYqBeRpwJSSt6Q7BKPsY1J3uoqftwXomyK
	UG+ztXGNXVAoe2HdWtFENxh3OsBVoohBDFgEU=
Received: by 10.142.156.19 with SMTP id d19mr1472726wfe.261.1218313321267;
	Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.142.246.7 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <62b856460808091322m38558ec2o1359fff91ae68a79@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 22:22:01 +0200
From: "Michael Grant" <mgrant@grant.org>
Sender: michael.grant@gmail.com
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
X-Google-Sender-Auth: c9a2baf927c4d19d
Subject: shutdown/reboot suggestion
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:22:01 -0000

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