Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org> writes: >> There is difference between reboot and shutdown -r now??? > > Yes. This has always been the case. > >> Reading the man pages, it doesn't look so. What is the difference? >> Does shutdown -r call rc.d scripts with "stop"? > > Indirectly, yes: shutdown(8) sends either SIGINT, SIGUSR or SIGUSR2 to > init(8), which runs /etc/rc.shutdown before killing all remaining > processes and either reboot / halt or start a single-user shell, while > reboot(8) and halt(8) send SIGTSTP to init(8), then SIGTERM to every > other process in the system, then SIGKILL to any process that hasn't > responded to SIGTERM after somewhere between five and sixty seconds, > before issuing a reboot(2) syscall. Is this distinction between them useful (other than possibly speed of shutdown/reboot)?Received on Tue Sep 29 2009 - 10:58:57 UTC
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