On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, solitone wrote: > What's the current best practice to shut down the system? In the old > days I used to: > # shutdown - h now > > but then I read of the systemd way: > # systemctl poweroff > > However, with the latter the system does shut down, although the > machine does not power off (I have to physically press the off > button). While with the former it actually powers off.
You can use either. `shutdown -h now` on a machine with systemd actually invokes systemctl with the equivalent of systemctl poweroff[1]. If your machine isn't actually powering off, usually that indicates that one or more units isn't finishing properly. The output of journalctl will tell you what is going on in such a case. 1: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/systemctl/systemctl.c#L7900 -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com [C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4
