On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 20:41, Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote: >> This is way too noisy if you have a scheduled reboot and multiple >> users on your system, they all have to C-l their terminals after >> each message. > > Why is this too noisy? It seem just noisy enought for me.
Because it's enough to say the equivalent of "we're rebooting in 4 hours" and then "we're just about to reboot, save any work you have *now*". Being reminded >10 times in 4 hours I think is a bit too much. Basically I'd like the shutdown command to wall() about as much as an equivalent E-Mail announcing a reboot. If you're going to reboot a machine in 4 hours you'll probably only send out one E-Mail announcing that, and maybe one a few minutes before the reboot. Sending out 17 E-Mails would be unnecessary noise, and so IMO is sending 17 wall() messages. But obviously you like it on the noisier side, so perhaps there should be a relative verbosity option to help people who like it quieter. As it is I'll probably not use shutdown for console announcements, but wrap it in a little shellscript and call wall() myself. But not having to do that would probably make the program more useful for more people. Thanks for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
