On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:15:23 +0000 (GMT)
Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Martin Husemann wrote:
> 
> > In general, it's only safe to use "halt -p" or "reboot" in a controlled
> > environment, like from single user mode - or if you realy now your machine
> > does not need any /etc/rc.d shutdown scripts.
> >
> > The safe default is to use "shutdown".
> 
> So, kdm should be modified to default to shutdown?

Yes.  As Martin explained, it's safer, and I see no reason to not do the
change.  (Another thing is wether HaltCmd should default to -h or -p...
I'd say the later ;-)

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