Am Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:32:16 -0600
schrieb Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org>:

> > running i386-current I noticed that despite having set
> > powerdown=YES in rc.shutdown the system halts with "Press any key
> > to reboot".
> > 
> > $ cat /etc/rc.shutdown | grep power  
> > powerdown=YES   # set to YES for powerdown
> > 
> > Did the logic change here?
> 
> Yes, the logic changed.  /etc/rc no longer "evaluates" other scripts,
> pulling in damage to it's variable space.
> 
> Use halt -p or shutdown -p if you want to power down.
> 
> I understand that there is contention over powerdown vs non-powerdown,
> but perhaps bringing this to the fore will result in a big decision
> about what to do.
> 
> 

Thank you, Theo, for the clarification.

I guess setting up an alias (s.th. like bye = 'halt -p') will do it as
well - though 'halt -p' is not _really_ inconvenient :-)

STEFAN

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