From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 05:35:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BC1106566C for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:35:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f49.google.com (mail-fx0-f49.google.com [209.85.161.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D3F8FC08 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so3109011fxm.36 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:35:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=6Q84IMSbD9CxvL3gSr3ZqnnGEDxXoDllC0mQjVkdbsY=; b=mubiSMloSN/ko6oFNWxK9EAT9d0K1O0pOMUwQNYS1V0jZ9LXZ4EYio49kVKMrn8a+s JmdfWeGAatgeGFUzZ0oLEN07qqaFmTGpR5dzkmxyOoUPIWUqtMufvj8WeqJQ0Yim9wuH TcLBDSY7DZyyyQDT0Wz5JCBaRKbM85qdg0+lA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=rSv+IBwy8egxIzygUEBng1ovWjnCpHeMRJ58FUJ3GiGEtI10LTTZkPIRGcWxksE27O Bzbeibu5AZGwnc1Euxrj+E/XA7RAS+fB+qCGnJhHDhNGrGyynMvYHPSJ6sXz4o3ckAD0 oi/Tw7qO03pMAttJXEgYd+paOx931sBGZ+ggA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.97.13 with SMTP id j13mr346556fan.146.1291959351225; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:35:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.107.79 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:35:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101210051058.353747BF861@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <20101210051058.353747BF861@drugs.dv.isc.org> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 23:35:51 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Mark Andrews Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /sbin/reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:35:52 -0000 On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > Why would you want it to be? One really shouldn't be running /sbin/reboot > directly as part of normal operations. shutdown does a graceful reboot if > and when operators need to perform reboot. > AFAIK, the only functional difference between the two is shutdown(8) notifies other logged in users of the impending shutdown. I've used reboot(8) for a long time with no ill effects so I'd be interested to hear what you meant there. Since an operator can use shutdown(8) to initiate the same shutdown sequence reboot(8) uses, it wouldn't seems to be a security based decision. -- Adam Vande More