Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?
It is true that its hard to work out how to get the machine off in Linux. I
use halt...which no-one here suggested. Is it not the most logical way to
halt a system?
Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: Kent Hayden <kahayden@interlinks.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, 18 July 1999 23:24
Subject: 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
> > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
> >
> > 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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