George H. Griffin" wrote:
> 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.
Hi
You have to tell the system WHEN it's going to
shutdown or reboot.
Try shutdown -h now.
Also see man shutdown for more options such as
telling the system to
shutdown at a specific time ;)
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/ Tina
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