/sbin/reboot

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Fri Dec 10 05:11:08 UTC 2010


In message <AANLkTinD3UZU6o-gf5J1B7CXp7DR1+JQvzbi9VJYmM8P at mail.gmail.com>, Adam
 Vande More writes:
> Is there a reason /sbin/reboot isn't assigned to the operator group or is
> this an oversight?

Why would you want it to be?   One really shouldn't be running /sbin/reboot
directly as part of normal operations.  shutdown does a graceful reboot if
and when operators need to perform  reboot.
 
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