<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-"><br>
</span>Won't work. Status changes only when job for a unit completes and jobs<br>
are executed in order of dependencies. Actually, jobs are *queued* in<br>
order of dependencies so nothing would indicate that you are going to<br>
shutdown until it is too late (i.e. all normal services are stopped).<br>
<span class="gmail-"><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>yes, but those units have started, so during a `systemctl reboot` you can execute</div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">[~] systemctl list-jobs shutdown.target reboot.target</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div> JOB UNIT            TYPE  STATE  </div><div>1972 reboot.target   start waiting</div><div>1974 shutdown.target start waiting</div><div><br></div><div>2 jobs listed.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_quote"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="gmail_quote">and get if shutdown has started</div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">the other thing that may help you know if you are in shutdown mode is execute `systemctl is-system-running`  and then check if returns `</span>stopping`, during a shutdown is suppose to return something like that. and i think it does this by checking is shutdown.target has started (<a href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/7a30dfeb18d09940a844389e06b25ca2bca5e093/src/core/manager.c#L3833-L3836">https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/7a30dfeb18d09940a844389e06b25ca2bca5e093/src/core/manager.c#L3833-L3836</a>)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Logically runlevel is not changed until *after* new runlevel has been<br>
reached. Practically systemd does not update runlevel during shutdown at<br>
all.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>yeap, you are right here, i was wrong :D</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>