Greetings, Frank Fesevur! > 2013/3/22 Thorsten Kampe: >>> > And does anybody ever use that reason thing on the windows shutdown? >>> I know it is used by server versions of Windows. When you request >>> shutdown/reboot you must enter a reason, and it is logged in system logs >>> (don't know exactly where, i guess you can find this in Event viewer). >>> Looks like it's ignored by desktop versions (XP/7/home/whatever). >> >> This is called the shutdown tracker and it's on by default on server >> systems (non core). Most people simply disable it.
> I know that, but I was wondering if anybody ever really uses this > feature from the command line. > And to be more specific, should the cygwin shutdown have an command > line option to give the reason for shutdown. Now it is always "Other > (Planned)". The Linux version have this functionality. Though, it's used a bit differently... but why wouldn't you use message that is already present in place, where you want to use a message? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 24.03.2013, <05:05> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
