On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Xin LI wrote: > I'm not sure if anyone would find this useful: Along similar lines, if we're looking at frequent admin errors: I've noticed an increasing number of people using "reboot" rather than "shutdown -r NOW" on the basis that on Linux (and perhaps other systems), reboot gives a clean application shutdown. I wonder if we should be making a similar change -- a lot of people may be risky data corruption/loss due to unclean application shutdown as a result of that misunderstanding. Robert > > - 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. > > Cheers, > - -- > Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ > FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkrBQa8ACgkQi+vbBBjt66D5iQCgmISna2P4CbX9qob5SuetGuoy > nUUAn0BtA/67Lyy8+91JppokUE57c/Ew > =Aytq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >Received on Tue Sep 29 2009 - 09:46:42 UTC
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