On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:15:22AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/13/14, Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > > I interpret the quoted string in the Subject: header as being flawed > > use of English language. 'stop' should be 'stopped'. And, there is a > > That would definitely be clearer. > > I was interpreting it as some special systemd shutdown-ey thing which > runs around trying to stop things, and that there might be various of > these, and one of them has a problem. Yes, I believe this is the correct interpretation. SystemD will tell all services to "stop". It will then wait until all those sevices have stopped. Some services will stop immediately, but some need a little longer to flush logs, finish servicing a request or whatever. After a period of seconds, it appears that SystemD will pop up a message to the effect of "I'm still here, still responding. I'm just waiting for service X to tell me it has stopped." Given what was said earlier in the thread, I suspect this will continue for 90 seconds until it finally gives up waiting. > > I.e. "stop job" being a noun. "Stop Command", perhaps? "Stop-Service command" would be even clearer (though that literal command doesn't exist). Perhaps a complete rewording to "Still waiting for Service $FOO in Session 2 of User $USER to stop" would be clearest.
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