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

[Michael Biebl]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:08:26 +0100 Christoph Pleger
<christoph.pleger at cs.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > 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?
> 
> As far as I remember, sysvinit started earlier with showing messages, 
> but the interval between the shutdown messages became shorter the closer 
> the actual shutdown time came, every minute in the last ten minutes, 
> five minutes with current_time < shutdown_time - 10 minutes, even longer 
> intervals with current_time << shutdown_time - 10 minutes.


Can you be more specific, how sysvinit behaved.
When exactly did sysvinit start with the notification messages, what was
the initial interval and how exactly did the interval change on each
iteration.

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