shutdown/reboot suggestion

[Al Plant]

Michael Grant wrote:
> More than once, through carelessness, and I'm sure I'm not alone, I
> have inadvertently shutdown or rebooted the wrong machine.  I'm sure
> some of you know that all too familiar feeling when you see
> "Connection closed" instead of your desktop being rebooted.
> 
> I have a suggestion with respect to these commands.  What if they
> could be modified to require the hostname of the machine as their
> first argument, otherwise, they refuse to bring the machine down?
> 
>   shutdown -h now
> 
> becomes:
> 
>   shutdown example.com -h now
> 
> and
> 
>   reboot
> 
> becomes
> 
>   reboot example.com
> 
> How hard would it to get the other *nix distributions to take up this up too?
> 
> Michael Grant
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Aloha,

I have set all my servers in the noc to shutdown -r now. This prevents 
me from locking my self out of servers as they are not in my office. I 
also set the tcsh command line to show path to the directory and the 
name of the host box i'm working on so I cant get confused.

Maybe this will help.

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