Re: Shutdown not working

[Graham Campbell <gc1111 optonline net>]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:47, Salvio wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> connecting (via ssh) to a remote machine I have:
> 
> ---
> login as: root
> Sent username "root"
> root 192 168 0 111's password:
> Last login: Tue Dec  9 17:32:31 2003 from 192.168.0.110
> [root localhost root]# shutdown now
> 
> Broadcast message from root (pts/1) (Tue Dec  9 17:37:38 2003):
> 
> The system is going down to maintenance mode NOW!
> [root localhost root]#
> ---
> 
> on the screen of the remote machine I see:
> 
> ---
> Telling INIT to go to single user mode.
> INIT: Going sigle user
> INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
> INIT: Sending pocesses the KILL signal
> sh-2.05b#
> ---
> 
> What should I check?
> 
> Thanks,
> Salvio
> 

According to the shutdown man page, the default action is to go into
single user mode (runlevel 1). Use the -r flag to reboot or the -h flag
to halt the system.
-- 
Graham Campbell <gc1111 optonline net>