[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 09/09/12 15:43 did gyre and gimble:
> Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> As a feature it's not pointless, but as an implementation it didn't
>> really cover things and I call it pointless as the feature only covered
>> the shutdown binary and not poweroff, halt or reboot binaries.
> 
> Actually it did cover all of them.  If ALLOW_REBOOT=no is set, it removes all 4 of those symlinks.  If it's set back to yes, it restores them.

Interesting, so I guess the feature was out of sync with the packaging
then as the symlinks for the others were included in packages and thus
would have resulted in rpm -V issues. Hey ho, time for a tidy up :)

Col



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