On 10.12.2010 11:35, Adam Vande More 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.
In short, one should use reboot/halt from single user mode to avoid calling shutdown command sequences for non-running services. For multi-user one should use shutdown to not miss these sequences. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ 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"
