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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Kunle 'bona wrote:


> just want to know how i shutdown in bl2, i've tried the shutdown comman 
> and i think it goes ino some kind of standby mode meanwhile whati want 
> it to do is poweroff completely, normally i just type reboot and turn 
> off the compuer when it's jus about rebooting.

I type 'shutdown -h now' and then wait for it finish unmounting drives and 
killing processes, then turn off the power.

shutdown --help gives a list of options

-h    halt on shutdown  (or -r reboots instead)

now   no wait

or

-t 0     0 seconds wait

Otherwise it will probably issue some warning and wait for some default 
period (10 min?) to shut down so users can finish what they are doing

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