I am a newbie too, so I jump at the chance to answer a question
the proper way to shutdown would be something like:
shutdown -h now
the -h passes the halt command to the shutdown scripts and is, as I have
read, the cleanest way to shutdown your machine.
Matthew Harrison wrote:
> As I am a total newbie to linux, I have a question on how exactly do I
> use the shutdown command to shutdown the computer. Right now I have to
> just let it reboot and shutdown as soon as it resets. Thanks.
>
> Matt
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