On Mar 22 16:37, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 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 exactly where, i guess you can find this in Event viewer). > >> Looks like it's ignored by desktop versions (XP/7/home/whatever). > > > > This is called the shutdown tracker and it's on by default on server > > systems (non core). Most people simply disable it. > > I know that, but I was wondering if anybody ever really uses this > feature from the command line. > > And to be more specific, should the cygwin shutdown have an command > line option to give the reason for shutdown. Now it is always "Other > (Planned)".
Wouldn't probably hurt. Think scripting on a terminal server. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
