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Subject: Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:22:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2004-08-21 22:16, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > In response to PR misc/70476 about `halt -p' I wrote a simple patch to
> > introduce a "poweroff" command that will default to "halt -p" behavior
> > and inhibit the need for changing the default behavior of halt(8).
> > 
> > o	Does this look ok to you all?
> > 
> > o	Should I suggest using it as a workaround of the behavior
> > 	described in the PR?
> 
> It would be nice if I also included the patch :-?

IMHO poweroff should behave like ``shutdown -p now'' rather than ``halt -p''.

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