On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:56:48AM +0200, Tomasz Wêgrzanowski wrote: > > Really, you are not supposed to call 'halt' or 'reboot' directly - > > that's just a BSD heritage that people can't seem to get rid of. > > But if you insist on it, halt or reboot don't need to be setuid root, > > since they call shutdown anyway if they think that is what you meant. > > Hmm... I used BSD as root a week and this was long time ago so my habit > is not from this place > Its just much faster and typoless to write `halt' than `shutdown -h now' > According to manpages halt|reboot calls shutdown if system is not > in proper runlevel
I think this might be debian-specific -- I do remember on other versions of unix, and probably even on other linux distributions -- that calling halt or reboot directly is a Very Bad Thing, unless things are worse on their own. :) -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
