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Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.



On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > systemd-inhibit --who='backup script' --why='backup is running currently' \
> >  --mode=block yourbackupscript;
> 
> This doesn't currently prevent either /sbin/shutdown or eg, the
> lightdm menu item from shutting the system down. It does inhibit
> systemctl reboot/halt.

Huh. That seems kind of unfortunate (and weird, because /sbin/shutdown
is symlinked to systemctl here; I would have expected /sbin/shutdown to
be a special case of systemctl halt.)

This is probably at least a documentation bug, and possibly a real bug.

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