Bug#884994: systemd: shutdown does not send its warning messages when time is more than ten minutes

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.01.2018 um 13:20 schrieb Christoph Pleger:
> Hello,
> 
>>
>> This functionality has been reworked completely based on systemd-logind.
>>
>> Can you please test with a more recent version, like 232 from stable.
> 
> at least, the problem does not occur in this form on a stretch machine,
> though I find it a disadvantage that no warning message is shown earlier
> than ten minutes before the actual shutdown. But from ten minutes and
> less, a warning is shown every minute.

Fwiw, this behaviour makes sense to me.
If you start a scheduled login 2 days in advance, sending a shutdown
message every minute would not be helpful. Restricting that to the last
ten minutes seems reasonable.

How did sysvinit behave in that regard?






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