> >> Anyway, I would like to have the system confirm a shutdown or reboot > >> before actually doing it. > > >Why? > >And who will be allowed to initiate a shutdown that way? > > >Without knowing that, it's hard to suggest a sane approach. > > I was just thinking about the possibility of having more than one SSH > session open, and mistakenly shutting down the wrong one. I agree that this > should be unlikely to occur, but I wanted to see if I could devise a simply > second step to help prevent it.
If you miss the first step of realizing which machine you are actually shutting down, no second step is gonna do that for you. > So, it seems to me that rc.shutdown could be used in this way, as long as I > could reliably figure out a way to redirect input/output to whatever > terminal was used to start the shutdown process. I can think of a pretty > messy way to do this by parsing through the output of ps, but thought there > must be a better way. If rc.shutdown is in progress, someone who has the priviledge already said shutdown(8). What's there to "confirm"?
