Hi. Just a minor clarification on the usage of halt/powerdown/shutdown.
halt (and also reboot) calls shutdown to do the work in the common
case, so there is no difference in using halt for the 08/15 user.
powerdown is a link to halt and will act the same in the common
case, i.e. run shutdown.
In other words, it does not matter whether you call powerdown, halt or
shutdown, they all end up executing shutdown.
reboot acts the same, except that it calls shutdown with -r instead
of -h.
I don't know if there is a point to make what is the Right Thing to
do. Once, it was clearly shutdown, but today...? At least for
multi-user systems you should still use shutdown, because of the
timeout and message before rebooting. (Yes, you should give other
users time to save. Yes, really.).
Regards,
Benjamin.
PS: And, which should be clear by now, which one you use has nothing
to do at all with whether the hardware really turns off itself.
On Sun 2003-02-02 at 20:29:19 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:58, Chuck Burns wrote:
> > On Sun, February 2 2003 5:42 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote:
> > : On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:30, Jason Greenwood wrote:
> > : > I've got a laptop and "halt" works fine here....
> > :
> > : Sorry, the command is "shutdown -h now".
> > :
> > : Anyway, neither halt or shutdown power off my laptop.
> > 'poweroff' works for me.. has for years.
> Nope. In my case it has something to do with enabling ACPI.
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