Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:45:59AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
But then some idiots came along, who though gnome was the entire world, and now it's impossible to not get it to stomp on your feet when you want to tell suspend-on-lid-close to fsck right off to where it belongs.
i was annoyed when systemd did a hostile takeover of power management on my little debian laptop last year
Apropos warning! An artefact of Debian 7's sysvinit scripts render halt(8) and poweroff(8) behaviour identical. Either BOTH cut power, or NEITHER. (The behaviour is configured under /etc/default). Under systemd, they are different: halt will never cut power after stopping the OS. poweroff will always cut power after stopping the OS. This means if, like me, you got into the habit of typing "halt" because it's shorter, you'll be making some trips to the server room. Also: "shutdown" without arguments in Debian 7 sysvinit is an error. Under Debian 8 systemd, it's equivalent to "shutdown -h +60".