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Subject: Re: Introducing a poweroff(8) command
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:41:29 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2004-08-21 23:50, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> wrote:
> >
> > IMHO poweroff should behave like ``shutdown -p now'' rather than
> > ``halt -p''.
> 
> This is relatively easy too.  See below :-)

I was going to suggest that one of the other things that might be considered
is whether a time argument should be required, or whether it should default
to ``now''.

I think however that the idea behind shutdown still stands - operators and
admins should be encouraged to give their users fair warning before shutting
the machine down....

This patch looks good to me (although I haven't actually tried it).

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