[OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

[Colin Ellis]

And fix those broken Oracle things like 'cmake'...

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Toomas Soome <Toomas.Soome at mls.ee> wrote:

>
> On 28.03.2011, at 18:51, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> >
> > I don't see what's progressive about the BSD and Linux shutdown
> > implementations, they just have different commandline options and
> > little more useful functionality (ie. message and more flexible
> > scheduling).
> > Solaris /usr/sbin/shutdown is itself a shellscript wrapping
> > around init.  Commandline options between BSD and Linux differ
> > and most of them (except -r, -h, time and message) seem pretty
> > much useless anyway.
> >
> > Manpages are at
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=shutdown&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE&format=html
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=shutdown&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=SuSE+Linux%2Fi386+11.3&format=html
> >
> > Code at
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/shutdown/
> > http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/sysvinit/trunk/src/?root=sysvinit
> >
>
> i think you need to add --help and --do-really-fast-boot and
> --be-quiet-and-just-fucking-halt  as well.
>
> ah, and stuff like "-x  (this option is now outdated and will be removed in
> future)" and "-z (this option was removed, use -x instead)"
>
> maybe you should consider fixing those broken gnu tools before breaking
> solaris any more?
>
> toomas
>
>
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