On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >> >> Charlie: According to the man pages all 3, halt, poweroff and reboot, >> use the shutdown command to perform the necessary steps when not >> starting in runlevel 0 or 6, which is pretty much always. So it is >> really weird that in your case poweroff does not work but shutdown >> does. >> >> If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 >> or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be >> invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more info see the >> shutdown(8) manpage. > > That's weird, and if it represents a change made by systemd, possibly > unfortunate. I know of at least one somewhat degenerate, but broadly > distributed and not uncommonly used, environment (which I think may be > based on SuSE) where 'shutdown' does not work at all - exits with an > error when called - but 'halt' and 'reboot' do work. (And probably so > does 'poweroff'.)
halt/poweroff/reboot have called shutdown at least since 6/squeeze. AIUI halt and poweroff are different if the system has a mode where the OS can be halted without being powered off, similar to a Solaris SPARC box where going to runlevel 0 shuts down the OS to go to a firmware prompt and runlevel 5 shuts down the OS and powers off the box. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sxbiznuv31tkb7ub16vpviyl1rkrozgllms5faog+k...@mail.gmail.com
