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Reboot/Shutdown, not verbose but abrupt

Oct 4, 2004, 8:31 PM

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Coming from FC2, I'm accustomed to seeing things scroll by as I'm
shutting down, it's like.. it's telling me what's happening. Is it
shutting down sendmail? It's at pcmcia already.

But in Gentoo, if I type reboot in xterm, I don't see any messages. (not
even the "sytem being rebooted broadcast message") and then a couple of
seconds later, I see the BIOS screen.

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Re: Reboot/Shutdown, not verbose but abrupt [ In reply to ]

andfarm at teknovis

Oct 7, 2004, 4:10 PM

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On 4 Oct 2004, at 20:31, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Coming from FC2, I'm accustomed to seeing things scroll by as I'm
> shutting down, it's like.. it's telling me what's happening. Is it
> shutting down sendmail? It's at pcmcia already.
>
> But in Gentoo, if I type reboot in xterm, I don't see any messages.
> (not
> even the "sytem being rebooted broadcast message") and then a couple of
> seconds later, I see the BIOS screen.

xterm isn't a console TTY, so it doesn't receive messages from the boot
scripts. Switch to vc/0 if you want to see those messages.

Re: Reboot/Shutdown, not verbose but abrupt [ In reply to ]

Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc

Oct 7, 2004, 6:59 PM

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On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 07:10, Andrew Farmer wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2004, at 20:31, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Coming from FC2, I'm accustomed to seeing things scroll by as I'm
> > shutting down, it's like.. it's telling me what's happening. Is it
> > shutting down sendmail? It's at pcmcia already.
> >
> > But in Gentoo, if I type reboot in xterm, I don't see any messages.
> > (not
> > even the "sytem being rebooted broadcast message") and then a couple of
> > seconds later, I see the BIOS screen.
>
> xterm isn't a console TTY, so it doesn't receive messages from the boot
> scripts. Switch to vc/0 if you want to see those messages.

Now that is funny. I login from another box using putty and when I
shutdown, I still do see those messages under other distros. Can you
tell me how that is done then?

There should be a _broadcast_ message to _everyone_ still in the system
right?? Telling them to save their work and log off.

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