Bug 29840

Summary:	No broadcast message sent for "shutdown -r now"
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lennart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	zbyszek
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624149
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Description Orion Poplawski 2010-08-27 08:37:20 UTC

No broadcast message is sent when you run:

shutdown -r now

Also, it would be good if a message was sent when a shutdown was cancelled:

[root@vmrawhide64 ~]# shutdown -c
[root@vmrawhide64 ~]#

Even the admin is unsure if it has been truly canceled, and the users certainly don't.

Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2010-08-27 08:39:18 UTC

Somewhat related (let me know if I should file a separate issue though), I like it when my ssh connections are terminated when a F13/F12 system is shutdown.  Currently on F14 the connection hangs until the remote machine is back up.

Comment 2 Michal Sekletar 2012-07-23 15:12:00 UTC

Sending broadcast message now works (tested in Rawhide) and shutdown -c never broadcasted anything (tested in RHEL5/6), unless specified otherwise by setting message to broadcast, which is now not possible (according to manpage). I will work with upstream to correct this behavior, because we should not be introducing inconsistency with old behavior in cases like this one.

Comment 3 Neil 2014-07-23 07:11:02 UTC

    I have tested in Fedora 20 with systemd 208, the broadcast message works fine for shutdown -c.

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2016-06-07 10:29:21 UTC

Closing this, as the original issue was fixed.

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