Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:51:17 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> Subject: Re: /sbin/reboot Message-ID: <201012100851.17425.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinAQDD%2BKkgz25k2_1hyiwn3E50qExpdO3vYDZR2@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimEvQ7amDeFE9eG%2BO9G664jXAWb9hhSt0bU%2B3DR@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=D5LrCCAdOc5FLp%2BXgBu=yNkuP4QoAgeGHUYfq@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinAQDD%2BKkgz25k2_1hyiwn3E50qExpdO3vYDZR2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday, December 10, 2010 2:27:58 am Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote: > > > When you have administered multi-user systems you learn to do things > > gracefully unless you actually need to do things abbruptly. > > > > Yes I of course I use shutdown -r on a multi-user system in the rare times I > deal with one. However that's not much of a reason not to have reboot in > the operator group, especially if you're like me in thinking the vast > majority of installs are single user type systems. As the end of the day, > it's pretty trivial to me one way or the other but I do think the current > way is a POLA violation. No, it is purposeful to force operator-induced shutdowns to send the warning message. That is actually useful aside from the fact that shutdown -r is more graceful than reboot as several people have already told you. -- John Baldwin
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