inet@zombie.inka.de wrote: > W. Borgert schrieb am Donnerstag, den 15. April 2004: > > AFAIK, halt doesn't switch off the system, poweroff does. > > Lol. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2004-04-15 09:56 /sbin/poweroff -> halt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2004-04-12 15:57 /sbin/reboot -> halt So what? /sbin/halt decides what to do based on the name used to call it.