On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:39:48 +0100 Frédéric Bron <frederic.b...@m4x.org> wrote:
> What does this mean? > > $ win_shutdown > WARNING!!! System is going down NOW > shutdown: Couldn't shutdown: Error 53 The network path was not found. > > where win_shutdown just contains: > shutdown -s now Are you calling a cygwin supplied shutdown, or the windows supplied shutdown? Windows has its own "shutdown" command. I suspect it was treating "now" as a network path. Windows shutdown command: ------------------------- Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy] No args Display this message (same as -?) -i Display GUI interface, must be the first option -l Log off (cannot be used with -m option) -s Shutdown the computer -r Shutdown and restart the computer -a Abort a system shutdown -m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort -t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds -c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters) -f Forces running applications to close without warning -d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown u is the user code p is a planned shutdown code xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256) yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/