On 08/06/2013 09:01 AM, phanisvara wrote: > On Monday 05 Aug 2013 18:39:22 Fons Adriaensen wrote: >> ssh -t remote1 "sudo /sbin/init 0" >> ssh -t remote2 "sudo /sbin/init 0" >> >> etc. This has worked well for years. >> >> Recently the machines were upgraded and mow use systemd. >> I replaced the original commands by >> >> ssh -t remote1 "sudo telinit 0" > > i've had problems with clean shutdown since systemd, too, and what's > working for me i "shutdown -h now" instead of the systemd commands > i've come across. i'm using this on virtual machines only, but don't > see why it shouldn't work on real remote boxes as well. > > this doesn't hang the ssh session, or cause any other problems i've > seen yet. > Why not poweroff? Anyways, telinit and shutdown are symlinks to systemctl, so you are actualy using systemd commands :P