Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:27:25 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

Surprisingly, in Debian the shutdown binary is in the systemd-sysv
package and will thus vanish as soon as we¹ eventually get rid of the
last init script, but I am pretty sure that shutdown nowadays just
issues a command to systemd like the appropriate systemctl reboot or
systemctl halt.

On Ubuntu 24.10 shutdown, reboot, and poweroff are symlinks to systemctl.
On Fedora 42 there is an additional step:

/usr/sbin/shutdown -> /bin/shutdown ->  /bin/systemctl

Raspberry Pi OS, which is derived from Debian, is the same as Ubuntu.