"shutdown now" on F11 as root problems and app crashes in VNC sessions

[Frank Cox]

On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:04:59 -0500
Comcast Mail wrote:

Hello Mr. Mail (or may I call you Comcast?):

> I've normally used the command "shutdown now" as root in a terminal window, 
> in a remote VNC session, on other machines and it works. I want to run the 
> machine I have as a headless server/remote workstation.

You haven't included the option part of the command.

shutdown -r now

shutdown -h now

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