[patch] halt/reboot/shutdown cleanup

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 2012-05-21 22:53, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> [My vote on the halt/reboot/shutdown issue is that halt(8) & reboot(8)
> should just be wrappers around reboot(2) and shutdown(8) should clean
> up and run the rc.d shutdown scripts - but maybe I'm showing my age]
> 
> On 2012-May-20 23:23:24 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:
>> Although my strongest peave withs this is in the periodical scripts
>> which are too talkative for my taste.
> 
> You can control much of that via /etc/periodic.conf - see
> /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for details.
> 
>> eg. I haven't used dump in 10 years, but still my reports have dump
>> lines in them.
> 
> You probably still have a non-empty /etc/dumpdates.  Unfortunately,
> you can't separately control the "df -h" and "dump W" output[1] but
> an empty /etc/dumpdates will reduce it to one line.
> 
> [1] I think we're getting to the point where 400.status-disks should
>     be split into 2.  dump(8) is becoming increasingly less relevant.
> 

I used these as obvious examples, but there are much more....
But that would be stealing the thread.

--WjW