Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:45:59 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command Message-ID: <20040822234559.038727bd@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: <20040822144129.GA785@gothmog.gr> References: <20040821235048.6244270a@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20040822020609.15d7cb27@localhost.pittgoth.com> <20040822095918.60146e21@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20040821191659.GA94336@gothmog.gr> <20040821202252.GB94336@gothmog.gr> <20040821235048.6244270a@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20040822020609.15d7cb27@localhost.pittgoth.com> <20040821191659.GA94336@gothmog.gr> <20040821202252.GB94336@gothmog.gr> <20040821235048.6244270a@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20040822144129.GA785@gothmog.gr>
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:41:29 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2004-08-21 23:50, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> wrote:
> >
> > IMHO poweroff should behave like ``shutdown -p now'' rather than
> > ``halt -p''.
>
> This is relatively easy too. See below :-)
I was going to suggest that one of the other things that might be considered
is whether a time argument should be required, or whether it should default
to ``now''.
I think however that the idea behind shutdown still stands - operators and
admins should be encouraged to give their users fair warning before shutting
the machine down....
This patch looks good to me (although I haven't actually tried it).
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
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