You are right, the man page does say it is only used with --force.
Interestingly, it seems the reboot command from the old sysvinit package
completely ignored this argument, not using it even with --force,
despite the man page saying so. Upstart's reboot command did the same
thing in precise. It was patched to try and fix this and actually do as
the man page says, but it looks like the patch was wrong, and causes a
shutdown without the -r switch to reboot when REBOOTCOMMAND is given
without --force. What is more weird, is that the kernel doesn't
actually use this REBOOTCOMMAND anyhow; it seems to have absolutely no
purpose.
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => In Progress
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Phillip Susi (psusi)
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'reboot now' reverting to maintenance mode
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