[systemd-devel] At wits end... need to execute a script prior to anything getting killed/changed on reboot/shutdown

[Mike Gilbert]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 12:54 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 17.01.19 um 18:51 schrieb Christopher Cox:
> > On 1/17/19 11:21 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> >> Am 17.01.19 um 18:17 schrieb Christopher Cox:
> >>> On 1/17/19 11:01 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >>>> Hmm, what kind of processes are you missing? user session stuff? How
> >>>> do you shut down? Note that display managers are likely to terminate
> >>>> the user sessions first, and only initiate system shutdown then...
> >>> These are nohup'd background processes not tied to any tty.
> >> give that a try!
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> >> [root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/systemd//logind.conf.d/logind.conf
> >> [Login]
> >> KillUserProcesses=no
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> > It's default, that is, already set to "no" (shouldn't matter anyway,
> > again the processes are nohup'd)
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> it is NOT default
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> it defaults to YES and the whole discussions as that changed where about
> nohup'd processes long ago

Unless he is compiling systemd himself, the default is determined by
the distro he is using. Several distros default it to "no" via the
default-kill-user-processes meson option.