Won't shutdown when time is up

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Oct 13 20:22:20 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 08:39 -0700, Pui Yu wrote:
> Adding P after shutdown still got stuck in displaying sh-3.1#, but
> when use shutdown -h 13:00, it finally shutdown completely.

By default, shutdown only takes the machine to run level 1 (single user
mode), so that's why you still have a command prompt.  Adding the "-h"
forces a shutdown to HALT state, "-r" means "reboot".

"man shutdown" for details.

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> On Oct 13, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Barry Yu wrote:
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> > Command used : shutdown 13:00
> > I didn't use p, I will try that out, thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> >         Pui Yu wrote:
> >         > Set fc5 to shutdown ; shutdown 13:30
> >         > 
> >         > But FC5 won't shutdown and in screen displayed;
> >         > Telling INIT to go to single user mode.
> >         > INIT: Going single use
> >         > INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
> >         > INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
> >         > sh-3.1#
> >         > 
> >         > And then just stopped right there and the cursor kept
> >         blinking- no
> >         > power down
> >         
> >         What is the exact shutdown command that you used? Did you
> >         use -P
> >         
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