On 3/8/19 12:46 PM, Pierre Ynard wrote: >> 2. The user runs /sbin/halt without the "-p" flag. This runs >> /sbin/shutdown -h. INIT_HALT is not set. The /etc/init.d/halt script >> checks /etc/defaults/halt to see whether it should poweroff or simply >> stop. > Yes, but Steve says that /sbin/halt without the "-p" flag should > definitely call /sbin/shutdown -h -H and always halt without poweroff > regardless of /etc/default/halt, which is in contradiction with what the > new version does as you just explained. >
When /sbin/halt is called without the -p flag, it should call /sbin/shutdown -h. It should not (and does not) call /sbin/shutdown -h -H. This is described in the halt(8) manual page. It should _not_ halt the system regardless of the what is in /etc/defaults/halt. - Jesse
