On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:08:58PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Daniel Braniss <danny_at_cs.huji.ac.il> writes: > > Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net> writes: > > > I'm not sure if anyone would find this useful: > > > > > > - If a shutdown is initiated from a tty -and- > > > - It's not a restart -and- > > > - The time parameter is set to "now" > > > > > > Then, the shutdown(8) program would give something like this: > > > > > > Shutting down <hostname> NOW, press ^C within 5 seconds to cancel... > > > > > > So the user would get a chance to terminate it before it's too late. > > I know we are living in a virtual world, where even shutting down > > a computer is just a 'wish', but lets keep some sanity, now means now. > > The "now" is not an issue; I think his point is that you *really* don't > want to accidentally type "shutdown -h now" or "shutdown now" instead of > "shutdown -r now" in an ssh session to a remote system - especially at 6 > pm on a Friday night when the machine is in a colo center that's only > manned during business hours. maybe we can hack tcsh (as our root shell) to ask "are you really sure" when entering shutdown/reboot/halt command?Received on Tue Sep 29 2009 - 09:14:53 UTC
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