Shutdown not working

[Salvio]

Hi all,

connecting (via ssh) to a remote machine I have:

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login as: root
Sent username "root"
root at 192.168.0.111's password:
Last login: Tue Dec  9 17:32:31 2003 from 192.168.0.110
[root at 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 at localhost root]#
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on the screen of the remote machine I see:

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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#
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What should I check?

Thanks,
Salvio