Bug 27440

Summary: Undocumented option "-l" for reboot(8)
Product: Documentation Reporter: reel <reel>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: nik <nik>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description reel 2001-05-19 04:30:01 UTC 
In the source, and in the manpage of reboot(8), there are no 
informations on the -l option. This option is used by shutdown
when he wants to reboot the system (shutdown -r ...). The usage
of the -l option is to tell reboot(8) not to send any informations
about the user that wants to reboot to syslogd(8). Just check the
code to know more.

Fix: 

Add informations about the -l options (no logging)
and remove the undocumented part in the source file.
How-To-Repeat: man 8 reboot

missing the -l option.

edit: /usr/src/sbin/reboot/reboot.c
line: 85.
Comment 1 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-05-20 12:10:09 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This option is intentionally left undocumented.
Comment 2 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-05-23 16:51:44 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: closed->open

Nik thinks this should still be documented.
Comment 3 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-05-23 16:51:44 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->nik
Comment 4 nik freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-05-24 10:27:33 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Now documented, thanks.