[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#598891: sysvinit: shutdown time message is too noisy, prints too many messages

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Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-12
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream


When I call shutdown like this:

    sudo shutdown -r '+240' "We're rebooting in 4 hours for kernel and libc updates"

It will proceed to wall() all consoles 17 times before shutting down,
or at T-minus:

    240
    150
    120
    90
    60
    45
    30
    15
    9-1

Followed by the NOW message. This is way too noisy if you have a
scheduled reboot and multiple users on your system, they all have to
C-l their terminals after each message.

There should be a way to configure the noisyness of these
messages. E.g. I'd be happy with one warning at T-minus 240, then one
at T-minus 10, followed by one at T-minus 1 and then the NOW message
at T-minus 0.

>From reading the documentation and the source there doesn't seem to be
such an option, please add one. Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc6-Avar-Akbar+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts                   2.88dsf-12 scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.96-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                     2.0.41-1   SELinux library for manipulating b
ii  sysv-rc                       2.88dsf-12 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.88dsf-12 System-V-like utilities

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

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