help with shutting down

[Øyvind Lode]

Agreed! I never use shutdown -r now when I need to reboot a machine.
I provided -h and -r only to provide more info on how the shutdown command syntax works.

Reboot is actually just invoking shutdown -r.
reboot is a symbolic link to halt and when the system is running normally (that is in runlevel 2-5) reboot will actually invoke shutdown -r and halt will invoke shutdown -h.

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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] on behalf of Robert cole [rkcole72984 at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 07:50
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: help with shutting down

You can also use the 'reboot' command to reboot. I used to use 'shutdown
-r now', but then I got lazy. <smile>

I just did a 'man reboot', and it looks like there is also a 'poweroff'
command. All of these have to be run with sudo.


On 01/26/2012 10:34 PM, Øyvind Lode wrote:
> Hi,
>
> shutdown -h now
>
> to reboot: shutdown -r now
>
> PS: you'll need to be root or a sudoer to shutdown.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] on behalf of Glenn [GlennErvin at cableone.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 07:28
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: help with shutting down
>
> Hi,
> I cannot get this Vinux to shut down.
> Somehow I got into the terminal, so the power button does not shut it down.
> I tried "shutdown --help"
> and I really don't understand the options given
> I try
> shutdown now
> and
> shutdown +.05
> I either need to know how to shut down, or get back to the Gnome desktop.
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn
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