> I thought I read here that to manually shutdown you entered "shutdown
> now" at the command line. Doing this, my system then shut down to single
> user mode. Next logon my system complained that it had not been shut down
> properly and did a bunch of self-checks. I obviously didn't remember
> something correctly. -Gary Prichard-
>
'shutdown now' puts the machine in single-user mode, you can NOT turn off power
while in single user mode.
Before turning off power to the machine you MUST run 'shutdown -h'
Joseph H. Perry
Oracle DBA
Columbus State University
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