Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command

From: Brian Somers (brian_at_Awfulhak.org)
Date: 08/23/04

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    Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:45:59 +0100
    To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
    
    

    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>
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