[newbie] Shutdown Poweroff

2000-03-15 Thread Gerald Davies
Are there any quick ways of shutting down / poweroff'ing a linux box that isn`t running X? ... The machine boots at runlevel3 ... so i issue the shutdown command, which takes it to runleve1 (single user) ...then i have to issue poweroff... is this due to my AT board?... can all of this be

Re: [newbie] Shutdown Poweroff

2000-03-15 Thread Rial Juan
To poweroff you need to type either "shutdown -h now" or "halt". The computer then shuts down, and in the case of an ATX board, powers down (if it's built into the kernel, but stock kernel should have it). In the case of an AT board, you get the message that tells you to power off the computer,