[LUGSB] Shutting Down

[Michael Baptista]

You would type "shutdown -h now" to Halt the system, or as you've figured  
out, "shutdown -r now" to Restart it. If the system is persistant and  
doesn't turn off, you could also try "shutdown -P now", which specifically  
tells the sysem to Power off. You could also replace "now" with an integer  
to indicate how many minutes from now it will shutdown, or a time in  
military format (17:38, etc) to specify it to shutdown at that specific  
time. "shutdown -c" will Cancel any pending shutdown operations, in case  
you've changed your mind.


On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:56:24 -0400, agent fat <agentfat2000 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> This is probably really simple but how do you shutdown a linux box from  
> the command line. Whenever I type
>   shutdown now
>   It runs through a bunch of stuff but then it goes back into the login  
> screen, or I can have it restart the system with
>   shutdown -r now
>  But how do I have it shutdown and power off the pc?
>
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