On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:56:48AM +0200, Tomasz Wêgrzanowski wrote: > 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
In general, it's a bad habit to get into--on some platforms halt just halts the system without running the shutdown scripts, unmounting filesystems, etc. Mike Stone

