On Tue 22 Nov 2022 at 15:56:48 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 08:48:25AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > There's a file, "scheduled", that's created in /run/systemd/shutdown, > > which contains the time, noisiness and destiny of the shutdown. > > I haven't tried editing, say, the noisiness, to see whether I can stop > > the flow of Wall messages on all my xterms. > > *My* shutdown has a command line option (-Q) for the latter. Dunno about > yours ;-)
# shutdown -Q +15 shutdown: invalid option -- 'Q' # But I meant in arrears, hence the "say". I still haven't tried editing, say, the MODE=poweroff to MODE=reboot, in order to see whether the file is only written, or read at intervals as well. I might have done if I hadn't already started my browser, and other miscellaneous tasks. Cheers, David.