From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 5:21:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6940B14D8F for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 05:21:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (lowell@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA21994 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:21:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA09724; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:21:50 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Group problems References: <99110818305400.00416@machine.beastie.org> <19991109231030.A980@marder-1> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 10 Nov 1999 08:21:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: Mark Ovens's message of Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:10:30 +0000 Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens writes: > Hmm, didn't know that. Why, though? reboot(8) can't be run as a > normal user and the only difference I can see between the two is > that shutdown(8) broadcasts a "System going down" warning. Is this > just an historical thing or is there a more subtle reason? shutdown has several extra features: it allows you to schedule the reboot for a point in the future, it writes those warnings to users' terminals, and it tries to get init to shut down other processes before it actually stops it. The last one is a good enough reason to *always* use shutdown in multiuser mode unless you have a good reason not to. Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message