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

[Comcast Mail]

Frank;

Thanks for the reply. The name is in the message by the way.

So I take it that some "option" always has to be specified when using the 
command?

Example:

shutdown -P now

If an option is required it would be nice to at least get an error message 
to that effect so I would know I did something stupid. Otherwise it looked 
like it worked until I noticed the directly attached console screen.

73's

Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Cox" <theatre at sasktel.net>
To: "Comcast Mail" <kc8ldo at arrl.net>; " Community assistance, encouragement, 
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Cc: "Comcast Mail" <kc8ldo at arrl.net>; <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: "shutdown now" on F11 as root problems and app crashes in VNC 
sessions


> 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
>
> -- 
> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
>