At 03:17 AM 2/3/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Thx Mr. Benjamin. That little bit of info is extremely helpful!!! Its precisely the info I was looking to find out. I had suspected before I sent the original post that what you're telling me would likely be the case. (Hm twisted sentence structure; lousy grammar; no attempt @ clarification? Yep, I'm stoned again. :D )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.
As always I thank you for your insights.
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