On Monday February 3 2003 05:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 11:33 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote:
> > Shutdown requires root permission, with halt AFAIK a user does
> > not....???
>
> Depends on a configuration setting. I've never used halt, so I
> couldn't say for that, but I would have thought it was similar to
> shutdown. I use shutdown -h (or -r) as user, because I am the only
> person likely to be using it and the risk is minimal - my choice.
> Certainly if others were using this machine I would rather they did
> that than simply powered off.
>
> Anne
'halt' is basically just an alias for 'shutdown -h now'
From the man page,
"If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0
or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be
invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more info see the
shutdown(8) manpage."
So 'halt' or 'reboot' just save a little typing ;)
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