Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:35:10 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Subject: Re: command line history broken in 11.0 Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK1rW1soa16zaiCfWkSE%2Bp=i_m72fAJKi0K7GFbFZ3Krqg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170321161947.f34a308d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <58D019EE.9030508@gmail.com> <e5c3cb42-e160-f6a8-24f6-05860f13decf@qeng-ho.org> <20170321161947.f34a308d.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:31:34 +0000, Arthur Chance wrote:
> > On 20/03/2017 18:05, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> > > On 10.3 I had the current session saving the command line history when
> > > issuing the shutdown, halt, and reboot command by using these alias
> > > commands that I added to the .cshrc file of my logged in user account.
> > >
> > > alias sd "exit && shutdown now"
> > > alias sdp "exit && shutdown -p now"
> > > alias rboot "exit && reboot"
> > > alias stop "exit && halt"
> > >
> > > Now after doing a clean install of 11.0 and using the same .cshrc file
> > > the rboot and stop alias commands no longer save the current history.
> > > They act like the exit command is not getting executed. The sd and sdp
> > > alias commands are working as expected.
> > >
> > > When existing from a session terminal by issuing the exit command does
> > > still save the current history.
> > >
> > > Is there an alternate method I can use?
> > >
> >
> > To the best of my understanding, reboot and halt should really only be
> > used in single user mode, because they don't cleanly close down running
> > programs - they're more like pulling the power plug after a couple of
> > syncs. That's been the case for a long time now.
>
> Basically, "reboot" is equivalent to "shutdown -r now", just
> as "halt" is to "shutdown -h now".
That statement is true on Linux, not FreeBSD.
> Both things do the same.
> From "man reboot":
>
>From "man reboot:" emphasis mine.
Normally, the shutdown(8) utility is used when the system needs to be
halted or restarted, giving users advance warning of their impending
doom
and ***cleanly terminating specific programs***.
See the init source if you question this.
--
Adam
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