On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 09:09:56AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > 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' > #
Ah, that Other Init System. Moving fast and breaking things ;-) > But I meant in arrears, hence the "say". I see. Hm. With SysV, you can't either (spoiler alert: the shutdown process itself is the one doing the timing by sleeping until fulfillment of its task). But you always can cancel it (shutdown -c with SysV, dunno, again, with systemd). > 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. That would be a nice experiment, yes :-) Cheers -- t
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