On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 02:08:36 -0400 Michael Shell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:30:40 +0200 > Stephen Berman <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Do you mean run `more' in one tty and while it's running do `shutdown -h >> now' in another tty? > > > Yes, and perhaps also by putting the process into the background: > > more file.txt& I did try (with kernel 5.5.3) `shutdown -h now' with `more' running in another tty (immediately after logging in and without running any other programm), and as before it got to the loopback interface message and then appeared to hang, but after a minute or so (I neglected to check the time more precisely but it was less than two minutes), the machine did power off. So this took longer than the 20 seconds it took when calling shutdown immediately after logging in but unlike when running emacs or startx it didn't hang indefinitely. Steve Berman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
