On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, martin f krafft wrote:
Yes and no. From the bug report I think your approach was more complex (esp. since it involved sudo). Mine's really just a hack that will only do some silly check if it's called over an SSH connection and a terminal is connected. Otherwise it just passes through.
Sudo was involved in my case but not the reason for the problem. The reason wath the fact that there was a command halt different from /sbin/halt found in the $PATH (because the sequence in the directories in $PATH was changed). So you might also call it initscripts fault to change the path or the fault of init not to call /sbin/halt explicitely but I was convinced that providing another halt executable is not really a good idea.
Especially if this method were "standardised" (as in packaged in the Debian archive), I doubt it would be a trap to fall in.
Well, this would really make a difference because in this case you could write a bug report against initscripts to care for calling "the right halt" which was not possible for my local solution. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]