Re: How can I get verbose shutdown from the GUI (Mate)?

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

On Tue 03 Oct 2023 at 13:15:48 (+0000), Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Am 03/10/2023 um 11:47 schrieb Ottavio Caruso:
> > Am 03/10/2023 um 10:43 schrieb Bret Busby:
> > > Also, why do you not use, instead of the command that you specified,
> > > shutdown -h
> > > or, (if instead, wanted, for example, after doing a kernel update)
> > > shutdown -r
> > > ?
> > 
> > Because all of these are just an alias to systemctl poweroff as
> > per systemctl man page.
> 
> Sorry I said alias, I mean link.
> 
> $ ls -l `which shutdown`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 18 15:55 /usr/sbin/shutdown -> /bin/systemctl
> $ ls -l `which poweroff`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 18 15:55 /usr/sbin/poweroff -> /bin/systemctl
> $ ls -l `which halt`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 18 15:55 /usr/sbin/halt -> /bin/systemctl

And observe that:

  $ ls -l /usr/sbin/reboot 
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 18 09:55 /usr/sbin/reboot -> /bin/systemctl
  $ 

but one of the first things systemctl will do is to find out by which
name it was called, and act accordingly. That's pretty common
behaviour in un*x (think busybox).

Cheers,
David.