Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > I can set up a script for backup with cron or anacron, but how can I > > prevent the computer from shutting down while the backup is being > > performed so as to not to leave it incomplete?. > > If you're using systemd, this can be done using systemd-inhibit. See > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-inhibit.html > for details. > > Quickly: > > systemd-inhibit --who='backup script' --why='backup is running currently' \ > --mode=block yourbackupscript;
This doesn't currently prevent either /sbin/shutdown or eg, the lightdm menu item from shutting the system down. It does inhibit systemctl reboot/halt. -- see shy jo
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