Re: : reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-23 Thread David T-G
Andrey, et al -- ...and then Andrey Repin said... % ... % % If anyone can explain the difference between "halt" and "power off" in the % terms of Linux 'shutdown' man page, I would probably vote for one of the % choices. [snip] On some machines, halting can leave you at a BIOS/firmware prompt b

Re: : reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Frank Fesevur! >> I thought about it for a while myself before posting but I concluded your >> choice was a good one: the usefulness of -h for hibernate probably >> outweighed the benefits of retaining compatibility with a more traditional >> (BSD) Unix shutdown. I checked to see if POS

Re: : reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Frank Fesevur! > 2013/3/22 Thorsten Kampe: >>> > And does anybody ever use that reason thing on the windows shutdown? >>> I know it is used by server versions of Windows. When you request >>> shutdown/reboot you must enter a reason, and it is logged in system logs >>> (don't know exactl

Re: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 19 11:40, Frank Fesevur wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that the cygwin reboot works different then the reboot > command on my (debian based) Linux machines. The cygwin reboot > requires a time on the command line while the reboot on Linux doesn't > accept a time and reboots immediately. > > Is

Re: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-19 Thread marco atzeri
On 3/19/2013 11:40 AM, Frank Fesevur wrote: Hi, I noticed that the cygwin reboot works different then the reboot command on my (debian based) Linux machines. The cygwin reboot requires a time on the command line while the reboot on Linux doesn't accept a time and reboots immediately. Is there a