Lee-Win Tai wrote:
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).
Right you are. That must have been why the command looked funny.
Thanks.
