> - changing finger memory is difficult, so I keep entering > 'halt' instead of 'poweroff' occasionally
I had the same problem, so I added the following to my /root/.bashrc on
Jessie so I can retrain my finger memory:
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# Make sure we poweroff the system by default (i.e. display message if
# just 'halt' is called)
_prompting_halt() {
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
echo -n "Did you really want to use just 'halt'? " >&2
echo "That will not poweroff the system." >&2
echo "To really halt the system, use:" >&2
echo " /sbin/halt" >&2
echo "Otherwise, to poweroff, use one of the following:" >&2
echo " poweroff" >&2
echo " halt -p" >&2
echo " shutdown -h (if /etc/default/halt is properly set)" >&2
echo " shutdown -P" >&2
return 1
fi
/sbin/halt "$@"
}
alias halt='_prompting_halt'
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(This uses an alias in order to make sure that it doesn't break
non-interactive shell scripts.)
I think one could have made a good argument before the release of Jessie
to revert to the (broken) previous default (and perhaps print a message
saying that this will change in Stretch), but changing it yet again is
a really bad idea in my eyes.
Christian
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