On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:08, Mike McCarty wrote: > Barry Yu wrote: > > I intended to shutdown the system in 10 second when issued command ; > > shutdown -h -t secs 10, and I got the result displayed; > > The system is going DOWN for halt in 10 minutes! (Actually 10 seconds > > are what I want) > > Have I missed something? > > You wanted > > # shutdown -h -t 10 now > > The -t secs is the delay between the message and the shutdown. > > The time parameter is when to issue the message, and is an > absolute time, or +nn where nn is the number of minutes to > wait, or is "now". > > Mike > -- > p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} > This message made from 100% recycled bits. > You have found the bank of Larn. > I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. > I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that! What is all this "now" crap! I'm lazy shutdown -h -t 10 0 The zero works as well as now (zero time equals now).