[plug] Mandrake 10 shutdown question

[Chris Griffin]

This is what I have been doing :shutdown -h now" but it does not power
it off like it used too.
But I also figure that the logon menu items should not be greyed out?

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:30:27 +0800, Craig Ringer
<craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> Chris Griffin wrote:
> > I know I have probably been looking straight at it, but how do I shut
> > down with Mandrake 10?
> > I only seem to get logoff options and at the logon screen all the
> > shutdown/reboot options are greyed out. At the moment I am doing an
> > init 0 in a shell, but that does not power it off and I should be able
> > to do it a little neater than that.
> 
> To shut down a machine from the command line, run
>         shutdown -h now
> running 'poweroff' will also work and will go through normal shutdown,
> but will have unexpected and unpleasant results if you ever try it on a
> non-Linux system:
> 
> Power off ... umm, OK, if you're sure. <screen goes blank>
> 
> Somewhat like typing 'halt' on most SYSV machines:
> 
> # halt
> System Halted
> 
> probably not the result one wants. For that reason, use 'shutdown -h now'.
> 
> --
> Craig Ringer
> 
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