official way to halt linux
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 16:11, Douglas O'Neal stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:
Still on that old Mandrake 9.2 here, albeit with a vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel.
I currently have my dialup connection to my ISP as a gateway. I would like to have two gateways; one the dialup (on ppp0) and one on...
From themanpage...:
OPTIONS -a Useetc-shutdown.allow.
-t sec Tell init(8) to wait sec seconds between sending processes the warning and the kill signal, before changing to another runlevel.
-k Don't really shutdown; only send the warning messages to everybody.
-r Reboot after shutdown.
-h Halt after shutdown.
-n DEPRECATED Don't call init(8) to do the shutdown but do it ourself. The use of this option is discouraged, and its results are not always what you'd expect.
-f Skip fsck on reboot.
-F Force fsck on reboot.
-c Cancel an already running shutdown. With this option it is of course not possible to give the time argument, but you can enter a explanatory message on the command line that will be sent to all users.
time When to shutdown.
warning-message Message to send to all users.
If ACPI is enabled, then my system will power-off when I issue...
shutdown -h now
... or...
halt
-- With kind regards,
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*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)
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