[systemd-devel] Q: shutdown messages and the lack of such

[Ulrich Windl]

Hi!

I hadn't used shutdown without "now" for a long time, but to day I did:
I was surprised about the messages: In traditional UNIX shutdown would announce the shutdown using wall messages. With systemd (in SLES12 SP5 this time) there was no message sent to the users and even in the journal the first message simply was:
systemd-logind[16681]: Creating /run/nologin, blocking further logins...
The processes magically stopped and the session was closed.

I wonder: Shouldn't here be an infiormational message at least when the shutdown command is entered, and at least a notice message when the actual shutdown time has arrived?
If you review syslog laternot at all obvious what had happened.

Regards,
Ulrich