From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 23 10: 3:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (kawoserv.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.180.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F1037B422; Wed, 23 May 2001 10:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@big.endian.de) Received: from zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.181.28]) by kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA14655; Wed, 23 May 2001 19:03:31 +0200 Received: by zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9074214CD0; Wed, 23 May 2001 19:03:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 19:03:31 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Nik Clayton , reel@sympatico.ca, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/27440: Undocumented option "-l" for reboot(8) Message-ID: <20010523190331.B4150@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> References: <200105201110.f4KBAbm71358@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010523161104.A32846@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20010523183424.A29448@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010523183424.A29448@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:34:24PM +0300 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov (ru@FreeBSD.ORG): > This option is marked as undocumented in the code. > Using this option on a regular basis would hurt last(1) as it computes > some dates using this mark. > The only purpose of having -l is to avoid duplicate "shutdown" and > "reboot" marks to wtmp(5). This paragraph makes a nice description for the -l flag. Let people shoot into their feet if they want to. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message