On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 01:27:04AM +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > On Thu Dec 30 10, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > Author: pjd > > Date: Thu Dec 30 18:06:31 2010 > > New Revision: 216823 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/216823 > > > > Log: > > For compatibility with Linux and Solaris add poweroff(8). > > any thoughts on adding a 'shutdown -c' switch for compatibility reasons? > right now the only way to revert a scheduled shutdown is to send a sigterm. > 'shutdown -c' would provide an easier way and in addition to that using > 'shutdown -c reason', admins could issue a notice to users why a scheduled > shutdown was aborted. > > this is the explanation for the -c option from the linux shutdown(8) manual: > > "-c > Cancel an already running shutdown. With this option it is of course not > possible to give the time argument, but you can enter a explanatory > message > on the command line that will be sent to all users."
I'm not against such a change:) -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com p...@freebsd.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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