Antw: Re: Shutdown behavior

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Jay Burger <jay.burger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 13.01.2020 um 17:36 in
Nachricht <9f4dc083-18f7-ba68-cc96-1d3c9492e873@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
...
> Personally, I would think the initial shutdown should always be honored.
> Unrealistic dramatized example: I have another emergency at Chernobyl
> and need to power down my reactor. Oops some service failed
> while in the shutdown state and the system just rebooted ‑ china syndrome.
> 
> Maybe consider looking at it as an elevation type of thing.
> Lowest level ‑ reboot
> higher level ‑ halt
> highest level ‑ poweroff
...

Actually I don't think that one of the above is better than another: If you
want to reboot a remote system, and the system powers down instead, you may be
in trouble as you'll have to "visit" the machine to power it up again.

Ulrich

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