Re: How to check for scheduled shutdown

[Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:09:56 -0600
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

> > > I haven't tried editing, say, the noisiness, to see whether I can
> > > stop the flow of Wall messages on all my xterms.  
> > 
> > *My* shutdown has a command line option (-Q) for the latter. Dunno
> > about yours ;-)  
> 
> # shutdown -Q +15
> shutdown: invalid option -- 'Q'
> # 

According to the man page for shutdown, --no-wall should do that.


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



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