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Stefano Gallotta's profile image
PARTNER Stefano Gallotta posted 04-10-2024 07:07

Hi all

Has anyone else noticed that you need an extra CR when you issue the shutdown (y command in D3 - AFTER it has started the shutdown process?

It gets "stuck" (bad word) at a point and unless you hit a CR only then does it do the remainder - shut down the printers and ends the shutdown process to return to Linux.

OR should we rather be using the systemctl stop D3svc ?

Regards

Stefano

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PARTNER David Knight posted 04-11-2024 04:40

Hi Stefano,

I'll answer the second part first:

My understanding is d3 or all flavours should always be 'elegantly' shutdown via the shutdown verb. Further, it is useful to have a 'user-shutdown' macro that does system-specific tidying up; too. [The opposite of a user-coldstart macro, I guess?]

Thus stopping from 'outside' d3 is a bit of a no-no.

As for your first question; according to the manual there is no DOCUMENTED (y option; only (f.

I vaguely remember a (y or similar option so snooped around and the closest is the 'power-off' command has a (u for unconditional log off.

Note the shutdown command is a BASIC subroutine; so you can always have a read and figure out if (y is a valid option or not; and what it is supposed to do?

I'm wondering though if the extra CR is due to systems that display all the printers which is an ACCESSS command of sorts I believe, which will pause at each screen full?

My suggestion:

  1. Check the manual for supported options
  2. Read the source of the command, possibly performing some debug steps to see where the pause is coming from; and why.

Hope that helps?

Cheers.

David Knight

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PARTNER Stefano Gallotta posted 04-11-2024 05:11

Hi @David Knight

Thanks for this (insight)

I did, however, see that WITHOUT the (y option - the shutdown behaves "as it should" requesting confirmation and shutting down in ONE stream (so as to speak).


I'll have a look at the code and see (expose) if at all the option (y is not used (somehow)

Thanks

Stefano

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ROCKETEER Brian Cram posted 04-11-2024 10:31

Just FYI, Chris Macadam tried this on his 10.4 Linux system and is NOT getting that same behavior.