On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:38:30PM -0500, Jed wrote: > I just installed the 2.4.22-1.2140 kernel update. Now when I issue > '/sbin/shutdown now' the system goes into single user mode and I get a > sh prompt instead of the system shutting down. On the other hand just > typing 'reboot' works fine. If I'm not mistaken, this is working as designed. >From 'man shutdown': ...runlevel 1 is used to put to system into a state where administrative tasks can be performed; this is the default if neither the -h or -r flag is given to shutdown. In other words, if you want to reboot the machine, you need to run '/sbin/shutdown -r now' instead of '/sbin/shutdown now' which just goes to runlevel 1 (as you've noticed).
