Re: [newbie] shutdown

[L. H. LOO]

At 12-05-2000 10:16 PM, you wrote:
>     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-

The command is : shutdown -h now  OR  shutdown -r now
-h means halt and exit from system ; -r means reboot

Regards