Christiaan Welvaart <c...@daneel.dyndns.org> writes: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> 'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 09/08/12 20:04 did gyre and gimble: >>> Yes because it totally makes sense to have a command to halt the >>> operating system but leave the machine using some power for nothing >>> (and preventing you from powering it on with wol). I am sure someone >>> believes it can be useful in some strange scenario. >> >> It's very useful and it was essential for me during the previous release >> to debug shutdown logic. > > The shutdown command has always been used for this.
But with the previous initscripts/sysvinit, the halt command was eventually handled by /etc/init.d/halt, which automatically passed the -p argument to halt. -- Olivier Blin - blino