On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Kevin Oberman <ober...@es.net> wrote:
> Unlike reboot, shutdown attempts to cleanly stop all processes. Things > like databases can be badly damaged by a reboot. Other processes save > state when stopped and that is lost with a reboot. > For the correct order, "shutdown -r" calls reboot which calls init which calls rc.shutdown. Doing a shutdown -r is the same as a reboot without the warning to logged in users and shutdown handles the logging instead of reboot. > Also, halt/reboot have options like -n and -q which can disrupt things worse than an unintended clean reboot. shutdown also give operator more possibilities than a clean shutdown some which could be very bad. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ 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"
