[Users] forced shutdown with client agent

Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com
Mon Apr 22 11:44:34 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Michal Skrivanek  wrote:

>> The idea was to allow a logged in user to orderly close his work right?
>> For that I'm not sure that even 30 seconds is enough.
> For that typically sysadmins use 5 or 10 minutes. 30s is worthless, no one would be able to react that fast…so to me this is the same as initiating shutdown right away. It's graceful anyway and all common apps would save the workspace on SIGTERM anyway. Well, does it even do anything on Windows?
> That's why I'd vote for 0. And keep is configurable in case you want to use it, sure.

+1

FWIW:
Using VMware since many years and there, when VMware tools are
installed, shutdown is immediate and didn't hear anyone complaining
about it.

Gianluca



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