Bug#810608: systemd-sysv: on shutdown, fails to inform users that the system is going down

[Martin Pitt]

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Hey Francesco,

Francesco Poli (wintermute) [2016-01-10 13:25 +0100]:
> When the box is being shut down (reboot or halt or poweroff), users
> are not notified in any way of what is happening.

"shutdown" (or equivalently "systemctl reboot" and friends) does do
that via wall, exactly like sysvinit. This works here, and we even
have automatic test cases to verify this.

This doesn't work very well with the "reboot" command as this does not
take a "delay time" argument like shutdown. Normally, on a system with
multiple/remote users its polite to do something like "shutdown -r 5"
so that they have a chance to finish their stuff. But none of this is
specific to systemd.

Can you confirm that "shutdown 5" is not showing wall messages for
you, or is this just a misunderstanding?

Thanks,

Martin

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