Quoting The Wanderer (wande...@fastmail.fm): > I've recently built a VM against jessie, and just for the heck of it, I > left it with the default systemd-based configuration. > > When I log in to the console as root and try to shut down, I get the > following: > > ======== > # shutdown -h -t 0 > Broadcast message from root@hostname (Fri 2015-09-11 14:08:29 EDT): > > The system is going down for power off at Fri 2015-09-11 14:09:29 EDT! > ======== > > I.e., even though I specified a shutdown delay of zero seconds (meaning > to shut down immediately), the shutdown is being delayed by 60 seconds. > > What I expected instead was a response including the line > > ======== > The system is going down for power off NOW! > ======== > > and an immediate shutdown (without even enough delay to log root out via > Ctrl-D), which is what I get on my other systems, where systemd is not > the active init system.
man shutdown I think the arguments have changed/been juggled/reduced. The lack of -F is especially annoying. Cheers, David.
