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2. What is the nature and description of the request? Request that the manpage of shutdown be changed to be less confusing. Specifically, change details regarding "-H" and "-P" option. The man page says that it sets the halt action to "halt" but it does not mention that it should be called with "-h" option. 3. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here) Client has two cases where users run shutdown -P now or shutdown -H now to halt/poweroff the system. Is it possible to clarify on the man page that "-H" and "-P" should be called with "-h" to actually shutdown 4. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here) Simple documentation (man page) change 5. For each functional requirement listed in question 4, specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented. N/A -- Documentation change 6. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla? I did not see one. 7. How quickly does this need resolved? (desired target release) Minor release. 8. Does this request meet the RHEL Inclusion criteria (please review) Yes 9. List the affected packages upstart 10. Would the customer be able to assist in testing this functionality if implemented? Testing should not be required--this is a documentation change.
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Please, Petr do you have a patch against this issue? If yes can you put it here I can fix this issue using man-pages-overrides process in 6.2.
Sorry for late response. > The man page says that it sets the halt action to "halt" but it does > not mention that it should be called with "-h" option. There is no need to use -h option with -H or -P, these options implies -h, see shutdown --help: -h halt or power off after shutdown -H halt after shutdown (implies -h) -P power off after shutdown (implies -h) # rpm -q upstart upstart-0.6.5-10.1.el6.x86_64 # shutdown -P now ... Halting system... Power down. # shutdown -H now ... Halting system... System halted.