Shutdown command with -t secs

[Mike McCarty]

Barry Yu wrote:
> I intended to shutdown the system in 10 second when issued command ; 
> shutdown -h -t secs 10, and I got the result displayed;
> The system is going DOWN for halt in 10 minutes! (Actually 10 seconds 
> are what I want)
> Have I missed something?
> 

You wanted

# shutdown -h -t 10 now

The -t secs is the delay between the message and the shutdown.

The time parameter is when to issue the message, and is an
absolute time, or +nn where nn is the number of minutes to
wait, or is "now".

Mike
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