On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Diana Eichert wrote:

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> Now I have another question.  In order to get power down to work, you have to 
> set "powerdown=YES" to power down the unit.  Now that's pretty obvious, but 
> why when you run "shutdown -r"/"reboot" does the system power down? Doesn't 
> that obviate the reboot command?  I would think "powerdown=YES" would be 
> ignored on "shutdown -r"/"reboot".
>
> diana

on further perusal through reboot.c I see where the "-p" switch only works 
if program is called as halt.

                 case 'p':
                         /* Only works if we're called as halt. */
                         if (dohalt) {
                                 pflag = 1;
                                 howto |= RB_POWERDOWN;
                         }
                         break;

Shouldn't the check for "powerdown=YES in rc.shutdown" also be wrapped 
by something similar?

                         execl(_PATH_BSHELL, "sh", _PATH_RC, "shutdown", (char *)NULL);
                         _exit(1);
                 default:
                         /* rc exits 2 if powerdown=YES in rc.shutdown */
                         waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
                         if (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) == 2)
                                 howto |= RB_POWERDOWN;

I'm downloading -current source to one of my landisks so I can make the 
change to reboot.c .

diana