When I reboot I get a fresh login screen for several seconds? before the reboot starts

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 11:45:07PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-08-25 at 21:49 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> > Set the time on the PC to show seconds before you hit the
> > button, or bring up a clock.
> 
> Or run shutdown with the reboot option and a time.
> 
> shutdown [OPTIONS...] [TIME] [WALL...]
> 
> Actually we should use systemctl these days.
> 
> FWIW if I need seconds, I use one of those:
> 
> $ watch -n1 date
> 
> $ xclock -d -strftime "%H:%M:%S" -update 1 &
> 
Both reboot and shutdown **are** systemctl:-

    chris$ ls -l /usr/sbin/reboot /usr/sbin/shutdown
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug  8 15:51 /usr/sbin/reboot -> ../bin/systemctl
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug  8 15:51 /usr/sbin/shutdown -> ../bin/systemctl
    chris$ 


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Chris Green