Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-15 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 15/06/2020 15:53, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On 6/15/20 6:19 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 15.06.20 um 05:38 schrieb Strahil Nikolov via CentOS: Working with different Linux Distributions makes the life harder. So far I have found out that 'poweroff' & 'reboot' has the same behaviour o

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-15 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 6/15/20 6:19 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 15.06.20 um 05:38 schrieb Strahil Nikolov via CentOS: Working with different Linux Distributions makes the life harder. So far I have found out that 'poweroff' & 'reboot' has the same behaviour on  Linux/Unix/BSDs. Yeah, poweroff seems

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-15 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 15.06.20 um 05:38 schrieb Strahil Nikolov via CentOS: Working with different Linux Distributions makes the life harder. So far I have found out that 'poweroff' & 'reboot' has the same behaviour on Linux/Unix/BSDs. Yeah, poweroff seems the appropriate command instead of halt. Thanks for a

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Working with different Linux Distributions makes the life harder. So far I have found out that 'poweroff' & 'reboot' has the same behaviour on Linux/Unix/BSDs. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 15 юни 2020 г. 5:22:28 GMT+03:00, John Pierce написа: >On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:19 PM Pete Biggs wr

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:19 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > > > I'm quite sure that in original Berkeley Unix, as on the VAX 11/780, halt > > was an immediate halt of the CPU without any process cleanup or file > system > > umounting or anything. Early SunOS (pre-Solaris) was like this, too. > > > The

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Pete Biggs
> I'm quite sure that in original Berkeley Unix, as on the VAX 11/780, halt > was an immediate halt of the CPU without any process cleanup or file system > umounting or anything. Early SunOS (pre-Solaris) was like this, too. > The SunOS 4.1.2 man page for halt says NAME halt - stop

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 5:20 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > > > fwiw, i've always used 'init 0' to shut down all sorts of unix/linux > > systems. > > In EL7/EL8, init is now a symlink as well because everything is > controlled by systemd. > > > On old school unix, and I think even early Linux, halt was

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Pete Biggs
> fwiw, i've always used 'init 0' to shut down all sorts of unix/linux > systems. In EL7/EL8, init is now a symlink as well because everything is controlled by systemd. > On old school unix, and I think even early Linux, halt was an > /immediate/ halt, as in catch fire. might as well hit t

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 01:32 +0200, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Working with different OSs can be quite challenging (mentally :-)). > > I wonder why the command "halt" has not same result between EL6 and EL8. > > To shutdown the vm or workstation in EL8 i must use "shutdown now". > > Who man

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 4:32 PM Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Working with different OSs can be quite challenging (mentally :-)). > > I wonder why the command "halt" has not same result between EL6 and EL8. > > To shutdown the vm or workstation in EL8 i must use "shutdown now". > fwiw, i've

[CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Working with different OSs can be quite challenging (mentally :-)). I wonder why the command "halt" has not same result between EL6 and EL8. To shutdown the vm or workstation in EL8 i must use "shutdown now". Who mandates this behavior in terms of configuration file? -- Leon __