On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:23:06 -0400 Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > > On 08/10/2014 10:15 AM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer > >> <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >>> On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: > >>>> > >>>> halt/poweroff/reboot have called shutdown at least since > >>>> 6/squeeze. > >>> > >>> Ah, so that may be a Debian-specific behavior, rather than an > >>> upstream one? > >>> > >>> That might explain the discrepancy, if so. > >>> > >>> If not, perhaps the environment in question is simply using older > >>> versions of those tools, which do not yet invoke 'shutdown'... > >> > >> It's in the BSDs that halt&co don't call shutdown. It's been called > >> in sysvinit for a long time. > > > > It's entirely possible that that environment in question does not > > use sysvinit even in part, so it's not entirely impossible that it's > > actually using halt etc. from a non-sysvinit source. I'll have to > > investigate if I decide it's worth the bother to find out. > > > > Thanks for the information; this is a potentially interesting puzzle > > where I didn't even realize one might exist. > > You're welcome. > > FTR, even sysvinit 2.57 in pre-buzz had the note about this being a > version where using halt&co is OK. > >
To add a little topical flavour here, all of the stop commands are now dependent on a daemon. If the daemon don't run, the computer don't stop. Obviously, this is a fault condition, but it happened to me a week or so ago. Fortunately, my computer hardware still has a power switch, and filesystems have had journals for some time... -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140810203233.7beb8...@jretrading.com
