https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2005/09/30/shutdown-style/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2005/09/30/shutdown-style/comment-page-1/#comment-560 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:11:02 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=1331#comment-560 shutdown sends a system wide message notifying about the shutdown aswell as it can schedule a system shutdown (i.e. +10 minutes) so users have time to log off and save their work before the shutdown will happen.
I think (but Im not completley sure of this) that shutdown internally calls halt once it’s time to initiate the shutdown.

]]> https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2005/09/30/shutdown-style/comment-page-1/#comment-559 Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:29:19 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=1331#comment-559 I usually use halt -p to shutdown, or should I say “power off”. Is there any major differences between the two that I’m not aware of?

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