reupload because i mixed up sigterm and sigkill like a dumb fuck

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[–] 21 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Don't be a pussy and sigkill process number 1.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Had the pleasure of installing some HPE proprietary crap on RHEL the other day.

    After the cli installer ran it printed: rebooting now.

    It then killed PID 1 to force the reboot ...

    We were flabbergasted. Why would the first and only method of asking the system to reboot be to shoot the system in the head?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I was installing something decades ago that set the default runlevel to 6 and inserted itself as a runlevel 6 service. It would reboot until it had finished the changes it wanted to make and then set the runlevel back. Weirdest trash software. The service stayed to "apply updates on reboot"

    I'm glad I don't have to work there anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Too much typing. Real men just press Alt+SysRq+L.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Just bind update/shutdown to a key you don't press often, like keypad insert.

    yay --noconfirm ; sudo shutdown now
    

    Any problems with update, computer is put straight out of its misery. Bang.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Just hold on to your butt and cut the main power.

    But then don't forget to switch back to main power before the auxiliary power runs out of fuel or things will get really bad.

    Unless it's the movie and they cut out the whole auxiliary power and just set it up such that all power goes out and no one thought of being at the power station to get the main generator back up and running asap before cutting the park's power.

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