Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command

From: Giorgos Keramidas (keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr)
Date: 08/24/04

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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>

    On 2004-08-23 14:22, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote:
    > This whole thread seems ridiculous to me. Why can't it be done with a
    > simple shell script?

    To avoid having to reimplement the command line parsing of reboot for
    the `-k kernel' for example.
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