--- James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here is one for the books.... > > If I startup my system and immediately shut it down, > it does. > > However, if I bring up the ppp0 interface and drop > it, shutdown -h or > shutdown -r appears to hang shutting down IPTABLES. > This recently > started and before this happened, I received the > following error: > Cannot map key 255 to event 2072 (this is from > memory) and the system > will shutdown or reboot. > This is perplexing as IPTABLES should not be a > problem as I can manually > stop and start this process. > Any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to > fix it? > > James McKenzie from man shutdown: NOTES "A lot of users forget to give the time argument and are then puzzled by the error message shutdown produces. The time argument is mandatory; in 90 percent of all cases this argument will be the word now." personally I use: shutdown now -h ymmv kate __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com
