*- On 23 Aug, pplaw wrote about "shutdown..."
> debs,
>
> is there any harm to just typing "halt" or "reboot" instead of the
> traditional "shutdown -h now," "shutdown -r now"...?
>
Not on current Debian systems, but if get in the habit of using halt
and reboot and end up on another system that doesn't have this
built-in check then you could run into trouble.
>From the man pages of halt and reboot in the sysvinit_2.76-3 package:
NOTES
Under previous sysvinit releases, reboot and halt should
never be called directly. From this release on halt and
reboot invoke shutdown(8) if the system is not in runlevel
0 or 6.
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Brian
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