"Guy T. Rice" wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, CPT KIDD wrote:
> > don't know if this is normal, but the halt -p and kde > shutdown does
> > work properly.
> >
> > but when i do a "shutdown now" at the command prompt, it starts the
> > shutdown sequence but turns into "single user mode".
>
> You need to use the "-h" flag to halt. From the man pages:
>
> shutdown does
> its job by signalling the init process, asking it to
> change the runlevel. Runlevel 0 is used to halt the sys
> tem, runlevel 6 is used to reboot the system, and runlevel
> 1 is used to put to system into a state where administra
> tive tasks can be performed; this is the default if nei
> ther the -h or -r flag is given to shutdown.
>
> Type "man shutdown" to get useful info like this about "shutdown";
> it also works for most other commands. Cool, eh?
just didn't seem right, thought i had it working before with "shutdown
now". no biggy. i got it working :)
