Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

>> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <pkirk@enterprise-hr.com> wrote:

Patrick> It is true that its hard to work out how to get the machine
Patrick> off in Linux.  I use halt...which no-one here suggested.  Is
Patrick> it not the most logical way to halt a system?

Halt did not sync the disks. If you ask some "oldtimers" how to
shutdown a *nix system, you might hear "sync; sync; halt".

However, the manpages says:

NOTES
       Under  previous  sysvinit releases, reboot and halt should
       never be called directly. From this release  on  halt  and
       reboot invoke shutdown(8) if the system is not in runlevel
       0 or 6.

Ciao,
	Martin