James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes: > > > > > > But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems "shutdown -h -H now") > > > > REBOOTS the system instead of powering it down. > > > > What about "halt"? man halt > > > The problem I think is burried > > Okay, ferret it out. > > Does this accomplish what you want: > > > "sync;sync;sync;halt" ?
Do you believe that a method described for early AT&T UNIX (early to mid 1970s) where "halt" did not yet exist is a valid idea for Linux? Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'