Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:17:11 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Yance Kowara <yance_kowara@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? Message-ID: <20060321180656.T49653@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20060321123243.70610.qmail@web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060321123243.70610.qmail@web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Yance Kowara wrote: [snip] > Yes, strangely enough shutdown -h now in FreeBSD will only halt the > machine. halt -p will poweroff the box, and shutdown -p now will also > power off the box. The shutdown options don't seem very strange to me: H stands for Halt, P stands for Power. The halt manpage says that "Normally, the shutdown(8) utility is used when the system needs to be halted ... cleanly terminating specific programs." > In Linux, shutdown -h now will power off the machine. *That* makes no sense to me, and I would find it to be unexpected behavior... but I guess it's a matter of what you're used to. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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