Shutdown problem with 2.4.22-1.2140
Nalin Dahyabhai
nalin at redhat.com
Thu Jan 8 04:56:03 UTC 2004
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.
>
> I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.
The default behavior of the "shutdown" command is to drop to single-user
mode, unless it is passed the -r or -h flag on the command line. You
can find more information in the shutdown(8) man page.
Cheers,
Nalin
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