Shutdown

[Oliver Fuchs]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004, Ron Gilbert wrote:

> 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!

Hi,

"shutdown now" gets the system down in single user mode (for special
administration). To get back again answer to the question which shell to use
with:
sh
or simply hit return and then type exit and the system will get in
multi-user-mode again.

I do:
shutdown -p now
to shutdown my system correctly.

Oliver

> 
> 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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