modem and shutdown

[Andrew Hodel]

I am quite sure that it is:

/sbin/shutdown now -h

Andrew

On Friday 04 October 2002 03:43, Cynthia Croy wrote:
> >2.  I've tried to shutdown in a couple of ways none of them very
> > successful: a) graphic shutdown button in KDE.
> >result:  tried to shutdown, sent kill signal, etc.  there was a noise =
that
> >sounded like a spinning thing coming to rest (it sounded like a good
> > noise). however, it hung up before shutting off the actual power.  th=
e
> > last thing it did was, "flushing ide devices hda hdb."
> >b) comman "halt -p"
> >result:  same as for step (a) above.
> >c) command "/sbin/shutdown -h"
> >result:  invalid command.  Yes, i was root, and checked the spelling. =
 :-?
> >d) command "shutdown -h now"
> >result: invalid command.  i was root, and checked the spelling. :-?
> >Any ideas?
>
> Two ideas:
>
> Have you tried "/sbin/shutdown -h now"?
>
> For the a and b, what happens if you shut off the power and start up
> again? If you don't get a message about unmounting uncleanly with a dis=
k
> check forced, I would think it shut down properly. Just for a bit more
> information, the last thing mine says before the screen goes blank is
> "stopping all md devices".
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>
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