According to Seth R Arnold: > I think this might be debian-specific -- I do remember on other versions of > unix, and probably even on other linux distributions -- that calling halt or > reboot directly is a Very Bad Thing, unless things are worse on their own. :)
Well it's pretty much linux-specific. Before sysvinit people used a BSD-like init (simpleinit) that came with "halt" and "reboot" commands. So "halt" and "reboot" of sysvinit have a hack to detect that they are called by the user wanting to do a controlled shutdown. And it actually works - usually ... Mike. -- First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
