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[ Please keep attribution ] [2019-04-07 11:12] Jesse Smith <jsm...@resonatingmedia.com> > > Halt action is to halt or drop into boot monitor on systems that > > support it." is not enough to convey, that in many cases it brings > > machine into state, when it is still on, display still showing > > letters, but no interation (except physical poweroff) is possible. > > That is what halt means - to stop running the system without powering > off. Maybe, but many of us are accustomed that /sbin/halt turns off the computer, so here comes confusion. > > "Maybe -H is actually produces useful behaviour in some cases (no > > idea), but please add into manpage warning like "Do not use -H option, > > unless you really know what are you doing." > > Halting is often used to run through the shutdown process and leave > output on the screen for debugging purposes. Or when you want the OS to > stop, but leave the power on. There is no negative side-effect to using > the -H option, no loss of data. There isn't any reason to print an extra > warning. Okay, what about including this explanation into manpage? I know, Unix is about sharp tools, but before I started working on sysvinit, I believed, that "halt == turn-off", so extra explanation, that it is different things would be nice to user. -- Note, that I send and fetch email in batch, once every 24 hours. If matter is urgent, try https://t.me/kaction --