Shutdown not working
Graham Campbell
gc1111 at optonline.net
Tue Dec 9 23:41:21 UTC 2003
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:47, Salvio wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> connecting (via ssh) to a remote machine I have:
>
> ---
> login as: root
> Sent username "root"
> root at 192.168.0.111's password:
> Last login: Tue Dec 9 17:32:31 2003 from 192.168.0.110
> [root at localhost root]# shutdown now
>
> Broadcast message from root (pts/1) (Tue Dec 9 17:37:38 2003):
>
> The system is going down to maintenance mode NOW!
> [root at localhost root]#
> ---
>
> on the screen of the remote machine I see:
>
> ---
> Telling INIT to go to single user mode.
> INIT: Going sigle user
> INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
> INIT: Sending pocesses the KILL signal
> sh-2.05b#
> ---
>
> What should I check?
>
> Thanks,
> Salvio
>
According to the shutdown man page, the default action is to go into
single user mode (runlevel 1). Use the -r flag to reboot or the -h flag
to halt the system.
--
Graham Campbell <gc1111 at optonline.net>
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