On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Devin Teske <dte...@vicor.com> wrote:
> There's no technical reason to avoid using halt directly other than the > fact that shutdown sends a message to connected users while halt does > not. > -- > Devin > > P.S. I welcome the rebuttle as a learning experience if the above is not > 100% accurate and true (but be-warned... I went around the office > polling _really_ old UNIX hands before making the above statement). > I used to believe that until I was shown I was wrong. The easiest way to see you're wrong is to drop to ttyv0 then do one of each like a reboot then a shutdown -r now. In the latter case, you'll notice /etc/rc.d/ and /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ stop scripts being processed but not so in the former. In both types of shutdowns, everything *should* exit cleanly but processes are terminated with different signals and certain types of applications really need the full rc stop script to end cleanly like HAST and CARP for example. shutdown -r/p is a really good habit to form. FWIW, someone also stated reboot on Linux behaves like shutdown -r now so that I sure contributes to the confusion. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
