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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Do, 17.01.19 12:38, Christopher Cox (ccox at endlessnow.com) wrote:

> > > it defaults to YES and the whole discussions as that changed where about
> > > nohup'd processes long ago
> >
> > Changing it to "no"... I'll let you know if this fixes things or not.
> >
>
> Actually, as it turns out the nohup'd processes are all owned by root, so
> changing to "no" didn't fix, but it's my understanding that if the setting
> isn't set root is always excluded anyhow.

The sessions of root are excluded, which is semantically slightly
different from processes of root.

> Out of the 18 processes that are
> running, my script only sees 6 of them.  Again, it's just doing a "ps -ef"
> to a file.  All 18 processes exist prior to shutdown and the script shows
> that if I run  manually.

Which systemd version is this? Note that on old systemd versions
systemd-user-sessions.service would go on its own killing spree early
on. Maybe you have such an old version?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat