From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 22 9:47: 8 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B0937B42C; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:46:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id g0MHkjH16428; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:46:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20.cicely.de [10.1.1.22]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g0MHkiZ9075245; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:46:45 +0100 (CET)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0MHkiW16891; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:46:44 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0MHkfc74458; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:46:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:46:41 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Nik Clayton , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c Message-ID: <20020122184640.M71841@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <200201221305.g0MD5Qm47393@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:07:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Nik Clayton writes: > > The Stuart Sellers memorial "I've run shutdown but it keeps telling me to > > reboot, how do I turn the machine off?" memorial MFC. > > ROTFL! My opinion of (l)users just fell a few notches... I always thought the nature for a FreeBSD system was to be up and running. Therefor pleasing the user to reboot was the right thing to do... What comes next? - single user prompt telling on how to rw mount '/'? - turning motd faq/handbook advice into blinking letters? - sysinstall to blocking install until the (l)user explicitly states to have read the handbook? -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message