From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 20:58:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46FFA1065675 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 20:58:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) Received: from vps.rulingia.com (host-122-100-2-194.octopus.com.au [122.100.2.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB1D8FC18 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 20:58:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aspire.rulingia.com (12.58.233.220.static.exetel.com.au [220.233.58.12]) by vps.rulingia.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4LKrjMm077829 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 22 May 2012 06:53:52 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) Received: from aspire.rulingia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aspire.rulingia.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4LKrUCk019400 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 22 May 2012 06:53:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@aspire.rulingia.com) Received: (from peter@localhost) by aspire.rulingia.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q4LKrSSv019399; Tue, 22 May 2012 06:53:28 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 06:53:26 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Willem Jan Withagen Message-ID: <20120521205326.GA2675@aspire.rulingia.com> References: <20120513220646.GA12826@stack.nl> <4FB0CF88.5010309@FreeBSD.org> <3D895644-0BA5-44F7-AC8F-07323729C1AA@bsdimp.com> <88BE52F2-E8CC-455D-B7AF-CB1F876D48B7@bsdimp.com> <4FB960CC.4090607@digiware.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FB960CC.4090607@digiware.nl> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] halt/reboot/shutdown cleanup X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:58:13 -0000 --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [My vote on the halt/reboot/shutdown issue is that halt(8) & reboot(8) should just be wrappers around reboot(2) and shutdown(8) should clean up and run the rc.d shutdown scripts - but maybe I'm showing my age] On 2012-May-20 23:23:24 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >Although my strongest peave withs this is in the periodical scripts >which are too talkative for my taste. You can control much of that via /etc/periodic.conf - see /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for details. >eg. I haven't used dump in 10 years, but still my reports have dump >lines in them. You probably still have a non-empty /etc/dumpdates. Unfortunately, you can't separately control the "df -h" and "dump W" output[1] but an empty /etc/dumpdates will reduce it to one line. [1] I think we're getting to the point where 400.status-disks should be split into 2. dump(8) is becoming increasingly less relevant. --=20 Peter Jeremy --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk+6q0YACgkQ/opHv/APuIfu5gCeNCUOuk1NwF11epfxzq0TJcou vwMAn2Ct9UxvIT+jO7TRL7rVqTZq2KG1 =YP0w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v--