[Trac #513] 'halt' and 'poweroff' could do the same thing

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#513: 'halt' and 'poweroff' could do the same thing
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 Reporter:  dilinger     |        Owner:  blizzard
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new     
 Priority:  low          |    Milestone:  BTest-3 
Component:  distro       |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment (by jerub):

 On debian derived systems, the sysvinit package has a /sbin/halt that will
 power off the system, this is from its changelog:

 {{{
 sysvinit (2.75-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Rewrote last.c to be much more memory friendly and correct,
     thanks to Nick Andrew <nick at zeta.org.au> and
     David Parrish <dparrish at zeta.org.au>
   * Fixes bugs:
     #21616: sysvinit: sulogin thinks md5 root password is bad
     ...
     #22579: power-off on halt

  -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels at cistron.nl>  Tue, 19 May 1998 11:02:29
 +0200
 }}}

 Debian bug 22579 was so long ago that it cannot be found in
 http://bugs.debian.org/

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