"shutdown now" on F11 as root problems and app crashes in VNC sessions

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Mon Nov 2 13:52:50 UTC 2009


Comcast Mail wrote:
> Frank;
> 
> Thanks for the reply. The name is in the message by the way.
> 
> So I take it that some "option" always has to be specified when using 
> the command?
> 
> Example:
> 
> shutdown -P now
> 
> If an option is required it would be nice to at least get an error 
> message to that effect so I would know I did something stupid. Otherwise 
> it looked like it worked until I noticed the directly attached console 
> screen.

You might take a look at the manpage, particularly the sentence that
includes the words, "this is the default".

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