shutdown command

[Koh Choon Lin]

Hi

>> Looking at /sbin it seems that halt and poweroff are symbolic links to
>> reboot but shutdown is actually different.  However the man page for
>> reboot says that (except for some specific options) reboot calls
>> shutdown.
>>
>> So basically it's shutdown at the bottom of all these commands.
>
> I can't understand the following. poweroff and halt, are symbolic
> links of /sbin/reboot. How all 3 have different outcome (poweoff,
> halt, and reboot respectively)?
>

No one uses shutdown or init to switch off their PC?  :D



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Regards
Koh Choon Lin