Shutdown problem with 2.4.22-1.2140

[Jed]

Lee-Win Tai wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:38:30PM -0500, Jed wrote:
>  
>
>>I just installed the 2.4.22-1.2140 kernel update.  Now when I issue 
>>'/sbin/shutdown now' the system goes into single user mode and I get a 
>>sh prompt instead of the system shutting down.  On the other hand just 
>>typing 'reboot' works fine.
>>    
>>
>
>If I'm not mistaken, this is working as designed.
>
>>From 'man shutdown':
>
>...runlevel 1 is used to put to system into a state where administrative
>tasks  can  be performed;  this  is  the default if neither the -h or
>-r flag is given to shutdown.
>
>
>In other words, if you want to reboot the machine, you need to run
>'/sbin/shutdown -r now' instead of '/sbin/shutdown now' which just goes
>to runlevel 1 (as you've noticed).
>
>
>  
>

Right you are.  That must have been why the command looked funny.

Thanks.