Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 23:35:51 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /sbin/reboot Message-ID: <AANLkTimEvQ7amDeFE9eG%2BO9G664jXAWb9hhSt0bU%2B3DR@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101210051058.353747BF861@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <AANLkTinD3UZU6o-gf5J1B7CXp7DR1%2BJQvzbi9VJYmM8P@mail.gmail.com> <20101210051058.353747BF861@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote: > Why would you want it to be? One really shouldn't be running /sbin/reboot > directly as part of normal operations. shutdown does a graceful reboot if > and when operators need to perform reboot. > AFAIK, the only functional difference between the two is shutdown(8) notifies other logged in users of the impending shutdown. I've used reboot(8) for a long time with no ill effects so I'd be interested to hear what you meant there. Since an operator can use shutdown(8) to initiate the same shutdown sequence reboot(8) uses, it wouldn't seems to be a security based decision. -- Adam Vande Morehome | help
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