Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command

From: Brian Somers (brian_at_Awfulhak.org)
Date: 08/22/04

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    Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:50:48 +0100
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>

    On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:22:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
    > On 2004-08-21 22:16, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
    > > Hi guys,
    > >
    > > In response to PR misc/70476 about `halt -p' I wrote a simple patch to
    > > introduce a "poweroff" command that will default to "halt -p" behavior
    > > and inhibit the need for changing the default behavior of halt(8).
    > >
    > > o Does this look ok to you all?
    > >
    > > o Should I suggest using it as a workaround of the behavior
    > > described in the PR?
    >
    > It would be nice if I also included the patch :-?

    IMHO poweroff should behave like ``shutdown -p now'' rather than ``halt -p''. 

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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