[99701] in RedHat Linux List
Re: telnet reboot/halt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Jinks)
Mon Nov 16 16:49:09 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:23:38 +0000
From: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
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Jan Carlson wrote:
>
> But typing halt and reboot is a very bad idea if you might be working
> on other Unix flavors. It's like training your dog to roll over with
>
> the command 'KILL'!
Mm. Maybe, but there is no standard command to teach. In Linux, halt
and reboot are safe. In some flavors of UNIX, they don't even exist.
In some, shutdown will cause problems if given the wrong arguments. Ad
nauseum.
This is a Linux list, and I don't have any problem talking about the
Linux way of doing things without adding five caveats about what won't
work on SCO or AIX.
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