On Friday, December 10, 2010 2:27:58 am Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > > > When you have administered multi-user systems you learn to do things > > gracefully unless you actually need to do things abbruptly. > > > > Yes I of course I use shutdown -r on a multi-user system in the rare times I > deal with one. However that's not much of a reason not to have reboot in > the operator group, especially if you're like me in thinking the vast > majority of installs are single user type systems. As the end of the day, > it's pretty trivial to me one way or the other but I do think the current > way is a POLA violation.
No, it is purposeful to force operator-induced shutdowns to send the warning message. That is actually useful aside from the fact that shutdown -r is more graceful than reboot as several people have already told you. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ 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"
