>This should be a fairly simple one: when I log out from Linux, my PC goes
>through the whole shutdown process, displays 'power down' on the screen, 
>and
>then waits for me to manually switch the machine off. Is this a Linux
>feature or should the PC be able to switch itself off?
>By the way, it will happily reboot the machine if I ask it to, and Win98 
>has
>no problems switching off the PC itself.

I haven't tested it recently but I remember typing shutdown -h now (or halt) 
and then having to turn it off manually.

James

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