Diogo Kollross <diogok_br@yahoo.com.br> writes: > Is there a problem in using something like > > shutdown -r now > > inside a postinst script of a package? Yes. Debian packages are supposed to be able to be installed and start working without requiring any reboots. We've made this work pretty well for libc and all kinds of hard cases; you can make it work for yours too I'm sure. It is certainly bogus to reboot the machine out from under the administrator.