Re: systemd ignores / overrides 'shutdown -t' delay?

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting The Wanderer (wanderer@fastmail.fm):
> I've recently built a VM against jessie, and just for the heck of it, I
> left it with the default systemd-based configuration.
> 
> When I log in to the console as root and try to shut down, I get the
> following:
> 
> ========
> # shutdown -h -t 0
> Broadcast message from root@hostname (Fri 2015-09-11 14:08:29 EDT):
> 
> The system is going down for power off at Fri 2015-09-11 14:09:29 EDT!
> ========
> 
> I.e., even though I specified a shutdown delay of zero seconds (meaning
> to shut down immediately), the shutdown is being delayed by 60 seconds.
> 
> What I expected instead was a response including the line
> 
> ========
> The system is going down for power off NOW!
> ========
> 
> and an immediate shutdown (without even enough delay to log root out via
> Ctrl-D), which is what I get on my other systems, where systemd is not
> the active init system.

man shutdown

I think the arguments have changed/been juggled/reduced.

The lack of -F is especially annoying.

Cheers,
David.