/sbin/reboot

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, December 10, 2010 2:27:58 am Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
> 
> > When you have administered multi-user systems you learn to do things
> > gracefully unless you actually need to do things abbruptly.
> >
> 
> Yes I of course I use shutdown -r on a multi-user system in the rare times I
> deal with one.  However that's not much of a reason not to have reboot in
> the operator group, especially if you're like me in thinking the vast
> majority of installs are single user type systems.  As the end of the day,
> it's pretty trivial to me one way or the other but I do think the current
> way is a POLA violation.

No, it is purposeful to force operator-induced shutdowns to send the warning
message.  That is actually useful aside from the fact that shutdown -r is
more graceful than reboot as several people have already told you.

-- 
John Baldwin