According to Paul Hoffman:
>
>This sounds right to me. I had this situation happen a few years ago, 
>and it was really annoying.
>

Yes, it can be very annoying especially if you cannot take the machine
down to fix the problem.

>How about "-u", meaning "under any circumstance" or "-i", meaning "i 
>really mean it"?
>

I would suggest "-n" to match shutdown(8)


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