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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Who would you employ? Post 302953265 by Corona688 on Wednesday 26th of August 2015 12:36:34 PM

08-26-2015

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The playing field is a little different now. They began in the era when being able to use a computer at all was a rare and expensive privilege and you had unquestioned full control over the machine. (At least, unquestioned by the machine.) I feel they knew they had some power over the future and tried to use it wisely. Now, even a homeless person is liable to carry greater computing power with them wherever they go, albeit only accessible in a peculiarly limited way; more availability and less control.

What used to need "witch doctors" now uses historians, since new tools aren't needed for common purposes and everyone keeps forgetting the old ones.

What the witch doctors are doing now, I'm less certain, but I bet they'll turn up sooner or later exactly where we weren't looking.

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shutdown

SHUTDOWN(8)							     shutdown							       SHUTDOWN(8)

NAME

       shutdown - Halt, power-off or reboot the machine

SYNOPSIS

       shutdown [OPTIONS...] [TIME] [WALL...]

DESCRIPTION

       shutdown may be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine.

       The first argument may be a time string (which is usually "now"). Optionally, this may be followed by a wall message to be sent to all
       logged-in users before going down.

       The time string may either be in the format "hh:mm" for hour/minutes specifying the time to execute the shutdown at, specified in 24h clock
       format. Alternatively it may be in the syntax "+m" referring to the specified number of minutes m from now.  "now" is an alias for "+0",
       i.e. for triggering an immediate shutdown. If no time argument is specified, "+1" is implied.

       Note that to specify a wall message you must specify a time argument, too.

       If the time argument is used, 5 minutes before the system goes down the /run/nologin file is created to ensure that further logins shall
       not be allowed.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       --help
	   Prints a short help text and exits.

       -H, --halt
	   Halt the machine.

       -P, --poweroff
	   Power-off the machine (the default).

       -r, --reboot
	   Reboot the machine.

       -h
	   Equivalent to --poweroff, unless --halt is specified.

       -k
	   Do not halt, power-off, reboot, just write wall message.

       --no-wall
	   Do not send wall message before halt, power-off, reboot.

       -c
	   Cancel a pending shutdown. This may be used cancel the effect of an invocation of shutdown with a time argument that is not "+0" or
	   "now".

EXIT STATUS

       On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemctl(1), halt(8), wall(1)

systemd 208															       SHUTDOWN(8)