Hi, > On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:46:51 +0000 Rodolfo Medina sent: > > <snip> > >> I've always used `halt' to shutdown the machine. Is `poweroff' >> proper to do that? >> >> Rodolfo > > poweroff doesn't work for me, but I tried it as root, next time I use it I > will try it as user and see if it works then. shutdown now does work as root.
Rodolfo: Yes, poweroff is now the "proper way" to shutdown a machine. Wanderer: While using Wheezy starting to use poweroff is the proper way to migrate from halt. But I do agree, it might have been a good idea to communicate this in a better way. Charlie: According to the man pages all 3, halt, poweroff and reboot, use the shutdown command to perform the necessary steps when not starting in runlevel 0 or 6, which is pretty much always. So it is really weird that in your case poweroff does not work but shutdown does. ----<quote>----- If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more info see the shutdown(8) manpage. [...] Under older sysvinit releases , reboot and halt should never be called directly. From release 2.74 on halt and reboot invoke shutdown(8) if the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6. This means that if halt or reboot cannot find out the current runlevel (for example, when /var/run/utmp hasn't been initialized correctly) shutdown will be called, which might not be what you want. Use the -f flag if you want to do a hard halt or reboot. ----<quote>----- Bonno Bloksma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
