-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote:
> 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: >>> 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. Ah, so that may be a Debian-specific behavior, rather than an upstream one? That might explain the discrepancy, if so. If not, perhaps the environment in question is simply using older versions of those tools, which do not yet invoke 'shutdown'... - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT53PTAAoJEASpNY00KDJrQC0QAJ/GEiAeVCEVmwGrJcfQVHBS CvG9CyCjW+Px/2ilg+CiasFkfaGBp9wGOonLcYdH3rMGMS1wVI2NLNjVYO4IFM4j TtBmZuKR8OsKFqtEwcK1E+jIiObJd//HYHW4f6WCXoHjUhL6jyoZ9LLc2ijI+lMM hbHLEtQjKdxFETBw+5jT42KTz5UIE4f0xJrsFNySpwut5wA6AJv94s6k2LmeyWIz Q8DN1ZL1Oj2J1J5EJ6Ya7RMDLcYxR2UDwlRNNmjTFGG8hclT6OTS/a+e0+dwG+lM E9iwsSdHk/JQAE4U6gF2gizA9l+PtkqlDE5ReREFDvF/9Q+vZttMRhJhF3wg/SzZ 4alZ9bs3sAIeFsYBske56KgPtBk95nqS0krt0bRWmVFzOdguYtJ3g2kHKIZrZDPR geEBx3uvE2AKzA4CLpSR6DMz3CPjsdr6jxYDafCdaMMDqwHsZrMjfQchnGcxeVZB bYNeCjjsZKpB4mfjbXykrMyNcX76YKngVK1q5obL00xy/5gSA8Ap2E/vklG+wfHZ EZIRK+oDVI8DwVeL+1tICAT+7KEVWxDEObZTxWiNSeMStjB/5Y+aC0T5MBb3YVDx ra8ln7u+W0FCEFcaL7EGspO2yA/Xn4+Jx1MK0Dji6NXmGKkgJCp80i5SqEHGry3P JCi1N1gX8yx1Fh24jLtk =3+ru -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/53e773d3.5030...@fastmail.fm
