On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andreas Kahari wrote: > At work, if I reboot my Solaris workstation, the "last" command reports > something like > reboot system boot Fri Oct 23 09:54 > ... > but at home, with Debian 2.0, it simply states that my system has > "crashed" at a specific time.
the 'halt' and 'reboot' commands are probably the hardcore method to bring the system down. On some distributions (maybe debian too, don't want to try out at the moment) 'sbin/shutdown -h now' goes into runlevel 0, goes trough /etc/init.d/* stop, halts then kills the remaining processes. this is the safe way, and would not 'crash'. I saw once that at the end of the shutdown, a 'halt' or 'reboot' is executed at the very end, so on these systems, typing 'halt' is like just pressing the power button. try if your problem goes away by using 'shutdown -r now'. -- Lukas Eppler (godot)