Re: safe halt/reboot/shutdown

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> [2006.10.16.1740 +0200]:
> > > This script, along with symlinks from halt and reboot, lives in
> > > /usr/local/sbin on all my systems
> >
> > Replacing halt might be a bit risky, as the story in
> > <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/354163> document. :)
>
> I would not be replacing it, really. Unless $SSH_CONNECTION is
> defined in the environment, all the shell script does is pass right
> through.

It is exactly what I did and what caused the trouble and hours
of debugging.  My solution I found in a local package is to
define commands hult and rebuut and use these exclusively so
I will not type halt and reboot on any machine I have sufficient
permissions any more.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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