Module Name: src
Committed By: snj
Date: Sat May 30 06:20:44 UTC 2009
Modified Files:
src/sbin/reboot [netbsd-3]: reboot.8
Log Message:
Pull up following revision(s) (requested by jnemeth in ticket #2016):
sbin/reboot/reboot.8: revision 1.22
Add a caveat about reboot(8) not running shutdown scripts. This addresses
(at least partially) PR/35067 by Blair Sadewitz.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.21 -r1.21.6.1 src/sbin/reboot/reboot.8
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/sbin/reboot/reboot.8
diff -u src/sbin/reboot/reboot.8:1.21 src/sbin/reboot/reboot.8:1.21.6.1
--- src/sbin/reboot/reboot.8:1.21 Thu Aug 7 10:04:37 2003
+++ src/sbin/reboot/reboot.8 Sat May 30 06:20:44 2009
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: reboot.8,v 1.21 2003/08/07 10:04:37 agc Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: reboot.8,v 1.21.6.1 2009/05/30 06:20:44 snj Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)reboot.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
.\"
-.Dd April 4, 2003
+.Dd May 24, 2007
.Dt REBOOT 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -110,6 +110,15 @@
To prevent premature termination, the command
blocks many signals early in its execution.
However, nothing can defend against deliberate attempts to evade this.
+.Pp
+This command will stop the system without running any
+.Xr shutdown 8
+scripts. Amongst other things, this means that swapping will not be
+disabled so that
+.Xr raid 4
+can shutdown cleanly. You should normally use
+.Xr shutdown 8
+unless you are running in single user mode.
.Sh BUGS
The single user shell will ignore the SIGTERM signal.
To avoid waiting for the timeout when
