3 Jan
2013
3 Jan
'13
6:59 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:
* What is the purpose of halt.target ? It stops the system but leaves power on. AFAICS, it's not possible to restart without a power cycle...
Under sysvinit halt and poweroff were the same. Under systemd 'halt' halts the machine, whereas 'poweroff' first halts the machine and then switches off the power. I use 'halt' a lot to debug shutdown bugs, don't know if it has other uses. Manually power cycling a halted machine is safe. -t