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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:34:24 +0300
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc: reel@sympatico.ca, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/27440: Undocumented option "-l" for reboot(8)
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:11:04PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:10:37AM -0700, ru@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > Synopsis: Undocumented option "-l" for reboot(8)
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: ru
> > State-Changed-When: Sun May 20 04:10:09 PDT 2001
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > This option is intentionally left undocumented.
> 
> Any reason why it should stay undocumented?  Solaris 8 has
> 
>   -l  Suppress sending a message to syslogd about who executed reboot.
> 
OTOH, System V Release 4 (Unixware 7) has:

:   -l
:          Logs a message to the system log indicating who rebooted the
:          system.

This option is marked as undocumented in the code.

Using this option on a regular basis would hurt last(1) as it computes
some dates using this mark.

The only purpose of having -l is to avoid duplicate "shutdown" and
"reboot" marks to wtmp(5).


Cheers,
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