Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later

(Not honoring follow-up to a group I don't read.)

In comp.os.linux.misc, Farley Flud  <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

Note: the "shutdown" command belongs the package "sysvinit"
and probably has been replaced within the junk Systemd that
has grabbed the balls of most, but not all (and certainly
not mine), GNU/Linux distros.
 
As I said, I feel very sorry for the helpless distro lackey.

I've been using Linux since about the same time as you, but Unix before
then. I have systems with and without systemd and there are pluses and
minuses.

There are cases where systemd systems can have shutdown installed
but it doesn't work. I don't recall how it happened, but I borked
something and got systemd error messages out of the shutdown command.
One I have saved (from 2016) looks like this:

# shutdown -r now
Failed to start reboot.target: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
See system logs and 'systemctl status reboot.target' for details.
Failed to open /dev/initctl: No such device or address
Failed to talk to init daemon.
# systemctl status reboot.target
Failed to get properties: Connection timed out
#

Not fun.

Elijah
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