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Re: Is power button shutdown safe?



Dear Mayuresh,

At Thu, 1 Dec 2011 19:17:51 +0530,
Mayuresh wrote:
>
> I just realize, if I press power button, NetBSD shuts down quite swiftly
> and boots cleanly indicating the mounts were closed properly.
>
> Is it safe to shut down using power button? What is it that it doesn't do
> that poweroff or shutdown commands do?

you might find

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?powerd++NetBSD-current

helpful and also studying the scripts in /etc/powerd

Best regards,

Marko

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