> I wondered, why the behaviour of the command halt might have changed. > Does this maybe be related to the change from sysinit to systemd?
I surmise that yes, and that systemd - and upstart - use a different default behavior than sysvinit. > I don't know why you are seeing a behavior change here in Debian, but > this is a FAQ in Ubuntu. You are right that for a very long time, > the behavior of 'halt' in sysvinit, as influenced by the contents of > /etc/default/halt, was to 'poweroff'. However, a careful reading of > the documentation shows that this was actually a *bug*; the 'halt' > command, without arguments, should always have been configured to > do a non-poweroff halt, and /etc/default/halt should only ever have > affected the behavior of 'shutdown -h'. > > The standard behaviors should always have been: > > shutdown -P == halt -p == poweroff: halt the system and power down > shutdown -H == halt: halt the system, do not power down > shutdown -h: halt or power off, depending on /etc/default/halt Steve, which documentation exactly do you base this on and how authoritative is it supposed to be? Jesse, what do you think of this? There seems to be a conflict of opinion here. -- Pierre Ynard
