Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:32:50 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Addition to reboot(8): reboot / halt reasons Message-ID: <20030903083250.GB86534@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030903081325.GA27941@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <1062469541.642.6.camel@prophecy.velum> <1062507323.2163.6.camel@prophecy.velum> <20030902134043.GB17646@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <200309021405.40906.wes@softweyr.com> <20030903081325.GA27941@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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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> -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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