On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 21:35, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > >> Why would you want it to be? One really shouldn't be running /sbin/reboot >> directly as part of normal operations. shutdown does a graceful reboot if >> and when operators need to perform reboot. >> > > AFAIK, the only functional difference between the two is shutdown(8) > notifies other logged in users of the impending shutdown. I've used > reboot(8) for a long time with no ill effects so I'd be interested to hear > what you meant there. Since an operator can use shutdown(8) to initiate the > same shutdown sequence reboot(8) uses, it wouldn't seems to be a security > based decision.
Shutdown runs rc.shutdown (stops all rc.d scripts). Also, halt/reboot have options like -n and -q which can disrupt things worse than an unintended clean reboot. -- Rob Farmer _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
