From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 11: 3:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from twirl.bitdance.com (twirl.bitdance.com [208.210.83.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CD037B75A for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:03:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bitz@twirl.bitdance.com) Received: from localhost (bitz@localhost) by twirl.bitdance.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27366; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:02:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bitz@twirl.bitdance.com) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:02:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. David Murray" To: Warner Losh Cc: Siegbert Baude , "Corey G." , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for change of /usr/src/UPDATING (was: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels) In-Reply-To: <200008021737.LAA92698@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > : [1] > : --> reboot <-- > : [...] > : This line should be "shutdown now", isn't it? Any further suggestions to > : make life of Warner easier? > > No. It should be "reboot" since that's the simplest thing. "shutdown > now" doesn't cause the machine to reboot, but merely causes the > processor to halt. It is the same thing as "halt," unless you have > users on the machine, in which case they will get a nice message > before the machine dies.... Um, not in my experience. Shutdown now shuts you down to single user mode without rebooting, it does *not* do a halt. I thought the 'reboot' was so that you were sure the new kernel *would* boot before you did the installworld. Even if the modules changed you can back out of the installkernel relatively easily, but it's a lot harder to back out of the installworld. --RDM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message