poweroff command reboots?

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Mar 27 23:31:26 UTC 2014


On 03/27/2014 07:18 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Aero Maxx wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I have an issue where the poweroff command reboots my system.
>>
>> Using /sbin/shutdown -h also reboot the system.
>>
> If you want to powerdown the -P (powerdown) option is often useful, 
> the -h (halt) gets to choose if it does halt or powerdown, and halt 
> often reboots.

Plus if your bios is set to poweron automatically, sometimes poweroff 
does not.

>
>> I am unsure whats causing this or how to go about finding the cause, 
>> I am not
>> sure if its something I have done when I installed fedora or not.
>>
>> Pressing the power button on the front of my cause also makes the 
>> system reboot
>> and not shutdown as expected.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Daniel.
>
>



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