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Date:      Sun, 18 Sep 2016 13:22:15 +0300
From:      Aleksander Alekseev <afiskon@devzen.ru>
To:        Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Stupid question regarding reboot and poweroff
Message-ID:  <20160918102215.GA5290@e733>
In-Reply-To: <1945dff3-ac29-f07d-0a66-85cec230f45e@qeng-ho.org>
References:  <20160918090323.GA69189@e733> <1945dff3-ac29-f07d-0a66-85cec230f45e@qeng-ho.org>

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> man shutdown says
> 
>      Calling “poweroff” is equivalent to running:
> 
>            shutdown -p now
> 
> and they're the same executable hard linked.
> 
> reboot is the same executable as halt. They don't warn logged on users
> in the same way as shutdown does. man  reboot says
> 
>      Normally, the shutdown(8) utility is used when the system needs to be
>      halted or restarted, giving users advance warning of their
> impending doom
>      and cleanly terminating specific programs.

I see. Thank you!

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev



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