On Nov 14, 2003, at 8:36 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Friday, November 14, 2003 21:10:04 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm sure I'm not the only sysadmin who's SSH'ed in to an ill box,
decided
a reboot was needed, and typed 'shutdown -i6 -g0 -y' (runlevel 6 to
reboot, zero seconds grace, and don't prompt me), and instead
realized 7
seconds later that what the other end *received* was '-i0 -g6 -y'
(poweroff with 6 seconds warning), and made a bad situation worse.
Just curiouswhy wouldn't you use 'shutdown -r now'?
Because that requires a non convoluted OS such as BSD. None of that
-thousand -switches -from -hell -SYSV -stuff. :-)
Chris Watson
M.M.
Bestor G. Brown #433
Wichita, KS
AIM: BSDUNIX44
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