Issue: shutdown now

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 6 February 2015 at 10:55, madhava satuluri
<satuluri.madhava at gmail.com> wrote:
> in Ubuntu 14.04 i have observed that the system accepts the command
> "#shutdown now"
> But instead of shutting down the system  and switches to single user mode
> after printing the below message on the console.
>
> Broadcast message from ubuntu at tegra-ubuntu
>         (/dev/ttyS0) at 10:44 ...
>
> The system is going down for maintenance NOW!
>
> Instead of this, I feel that the user can be prompted to use the "now" only
> in conjunction with -h or -r  or other switches
>
> Current behavior is confusing if a admin user is logged in to the system
> from a ssh session  and has no access to the physical machine, He will have
> to wait in eternity for the system to be UP or someone to physical bring it
> up again.
>

What is the version of the upstart package you are using?


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Regards,

Dimitri.