ON most systems, they are the same program. IN fact, if you are not at runlevel 0 or 6, most of the time the reboot and poweroff programs simply invoke shutdown. The shutdown script then invokes the command again, only this time they actually execute since you are at level 0 or 6. Halt is simply the poweroff command. --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:18 PM Subject: Re: Shutting down Linux > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:17:13PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: >> poweroff >> >> This one has the advantage of continuing the shutdown to the point of >> turning off the power. >> > > Interesting, using the halt command on my system also shuts off the > power. So, I don't see the advantage to using poweroff that you > pointed out. > > Greg > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAjtw47s9z/XlyUyARAoJTAKC+ozIeutQEWRXrfU60Rr7JlAPbwACgkEwW > JGLLzX6Wt4dSjvCtIo7MuqU= > =hoqu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
