On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:25:49AM -0700, syn wrote: > "poweroff -f" forces halt to run, which isn't the cleanest way to shut > things down. "-f" might be related to an issue lns noticed with thin > clients not being able to power back up after shutdown (that has yet > to be completely verified). "poweroff -p" should be no different than > "poweroff" because poweroff is "halt -p". > > I'd argue that "poweroff -p" should be changed to "shutdown -h now" as > to allow the shutdown to take care of everything smoothly. Is there a > reason *not* to just use the standard and recommended method of > "shutdown"?
Typically, with a thin client, once you've logged out, hitting the power button should just "turn it off" immediately, as there's nothing running in the background such as a database, or a web server, etc. Running a full shutdown will actually take a few seconds, and some users may find that disconcerting, especially if they're used to hitting the power button and it immediately powers off. We have about 7.735026654556x10^6452 variables now in lts.conf, one supposes an "LDM_SHUTDOWN_COMMAND" or the like with a default to "poweroff -fp" would be the way to go, and people with buggy acpi bioses can then sub in shutdown -h now or whatever they prefer. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | He that breaks a thing to find out what it is Systems Department | has left the path of wisdom. Legal Aid Manitoba | -- J.R.R. Tolkien ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
