[plug] How to force a shutdown with reboot??

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:55:30PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:

| BTW I am under the impression that this would just invoke `shutdown`,
| because traditionally you would want `shutdown` to do nice things and
| poke `init` prior to `reboot` on a multi-user system.

No, it's actually equivalent to 'init 6' (or 'init 0' in the case of
halt/poweroff).  reboot -f forces a reboot Right Now.  man reboot :-)

Cameron.