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Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Xin LI wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure if anyone would find this useful:
> 
> Along similar lines, if we're looking at frequent admin errors: I've 
> noticed an increasing number of people using "reboot" rather than 
> "shutdown -r NOW" on the basis that on Linux (and perhaps other 
> systems), reboot gives a clean application shutdown.  I wonder if we 
> should be making a similar change -- a lot of people may be risky data 
> corruption/loss due to unclean application shutdown as a result of that 
> misunderstanding.

There is difference between reboot and shutdown -r now???

Reading the man pages, it doesn't look so. What is the difference? Does 
shutdown -r call rc.d scripts with "stop"?