Hi!
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, George H. Griffin wrote:
>
> Hello-
>
> I'm new to Linux, running SuSE 5.3. Recently when I have tried to
> shutdown my system using either shutdown -r or shutdown -h, while logged
> on as root, the only thing that happens is that the screen shows a list
> of the options possible with that command. The only way I can get out
> is by Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Anyone out there have any idea what's happened
> to my system?
>
You have to specify a timeout for starting shutdown, e.g.
'shutdown -r now' or 'shutdown -r 15' .
Viktor
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