Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?
Tyler:
Some of this stuff isn't entirely intuitive to us newbies, you know. Maybe this should
be placed in the installation documentation, because when you're new to Linux (or Unix)
it almost seems like powering off is the only thing you can do, unless you have a
collection of Linux books at your side.
tyler spivey wrote:
> ok, if you cant shutdown why do you use linux in the first place?
> the command is as root:
> shutdown -h now
>
> tyler@sdf.lonestar.org
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> On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote:
>
> > Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me
> > at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any
> > commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when I'm
> > finished. Apparantly that is a bad idea.
> >
> > I'm guessing there must be a way to get debian to shutdown properly so I
> > don't have to wait for everything to uncompress and unmount before it can
> > boot up again(?).
> >
> > If so, what is the command to shutdown? Or is it simply cntrl/alt/del to
> > cause debian to stop everything from running and then turn it off at memory
> > checking? That's the only way I know how to avoid error messages that say
> > the system was not properly unmounted.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Andre'
> >
> >
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