Kris Noland (kris@primordialsoft.com)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:11:34 -0400
>>When I issue the shutdown now command, my ANS 500 with LinuxPPC 4.1 doesn't
>>completely shutdown. It will go all the way to a screen that looks like:
>
>Steve:
>
>shutdown without the -r performs a 'halt' sequence, which takes the
>machine into single-user mode, for performing maintenance or doing other
>'single-userish' sorts of things. That's why you were presented with the
>'bash#' prompt. Even though you have a local console, every other process
>specified in the /etc/rc.*.d directories had been terminated.
Mark & Steve,
the command 'shutdown now' drops you into single user mode.
the command 'shutdown -r now' reboots the machine
the command 'shutdown -h now' does a clean shutdown and powers the
machine off
see the shutdown manpage for details.
kris
Kris Noland
Partner
Primordial Software
kris@primordialsoft.com
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