[arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

[Joe Eaves]

(Resending, used the wrong email before. Again. -_-' )
On 6 August 2013 16:18, Fons Adriaensen wrote:

>
> What difference should the '&& exit' make ? The ssh will terminate
> anyway when poweroff returns. Problem is that by then it's too
> late.
>
> I think the fundamental problem is that you just can't expect
> 'systemctl poweroff' or whatever variation of it, to return and
> still have a clean system at that point.
>

How about something like 'shutdown -t 5'? I know if I put that into an SSH
session manually, it'll print me a wall message and then I have some time
to hit CTRL-D (or exit if I'm quick), so why would an automated command not
be able to do the same?

For this reason I believe the above, plus the '&& exit' might actually
work. The command will return, the wall message will print (obviously we
won't see that) and then the exit will happen, before the system actually
tries to shutdown.

I don't have a box handy to test with as I write this though, sorry.

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