[PATCH] Shutdown cooloff feature

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 7:08:58 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> writes:
> > Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> writes:
> > > I'm not sure if anyone would find this useful:
> > > 
> > >  - If a shutdown is initiated from a tty -and-
> > >  - It's not a restart -and-
> > >  - The time parameter is set to "now"
> > > 
> > > Then, the shutdown(8) program would give something like this:
> > > 
> > > Shutting down <hostname> NOW, press ^C within 5 seconds to cancel...
> > > 
> > > So the user would get a chance to terminate it before it's too late.
> > I know we are living in a virtual world, where even shutting down
> > a computer is just a 'wish', but lets keep some sanity, now means now.
> 
> The "now" is not an issue; I think his point is that you *really* don't
> want to accidentally type "shutdown -h now" or "shutdown now" instead of
> "shutdown -r now" in an ssh session to a remote system - especially at 6
> pm on a Friday night when the machine is in a colo center that's only
> manned during business hours.

I would even want it for 'shutdown -r' to be honest.  I occasionally reboot my 
desktop instead of a remote box due to accidentally logging out of an ssh 
session, etc.  I've actually done a 'chmod 000' of /sbin/shutdown on my 
current desktop as a workaround for now. :-/

-- 
John Baldwin