Shutdown

[Ron Gilbert]

ah...it's the -h option.  I was doing "shutdown now", not "shutdown -h 
now".    Without the -h, the systems halts immediately, without syncing 
the disks.

Thanks!

Ron



On Nov 9, 2004, at 11:51 AM, David Radovanovic wrote:

>
>> I just installed 5.3-release, and everything is working great, except
>> when I shut down.  Every-time I reboot, I get errors that say the
>> drives were not shut-down properly and it runs fsck.  I am doing
>> shutdown and everything seems OK.
>>
>> After the shut-down process, it says "to enter a shell or hit return
>> for /bin/sh".  Unlike Redhat, it never says it's safe to shutdown the
>> machine.  Is this correct, or am I doing some thing wrong to shutdown
>> and/or reboot.
>>
>> This is a older machine and does not have the power-off support.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>
>
>> From one newbie (two years) to another. If you need to, then a 
>> graceful
> shutdown is the way to go, i.e. shutdown -h now or just shutdown -h. 
> Maybe
> there someone out there that knows better.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> David Radovanovic
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