According to Seth R Arnold:
> I think this might be debian-specific -- I do remember on other versions of
> unix, and probably even on other linux distributions -- that calling halt or
> reboot directly is a Very Bad Thing, unless things are worse on their own. :)
Well it's pretty much linux-speci
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:56:48AM +0200, Tomasz Wêgrzanowski wrote:
> > Really, you are not supposed to call 'halt' or 'reboot' directly -
> > that's just a BSD heritage that people can't seem to get rid of.
> > But if you insist on it, halt or reboot don't need to be setuid root,
> > since they c
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