[cbolton]

> inability to express "just shut the fucking system down, you won't have power in 5 minutes" for servers connected to UPS.

What about "systemctl --force --force poweroff" ?

[teddyh]

With two “--force” options, that is essentially equivalent to “echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger”, isn’t it? I would think that one “--force” would have the actually desired effect.

[cbolton]

Yes you're right.