> though they may very well just keep chugging on, > pretending all is well. Very last post on systemd as you've said this before and I chose not to respond. No, they will throw a decriptive or general error and do what the script author intended which could be sub routines, traps which could be ask the user anything and ^C may work too. You see this as a good thing? Was systemd intended to just stop without a prompt? -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________