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

[mwooding@thecity.sfsu.edu (Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union)]

John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com> writes:

> André Bell wrote:
> 
> > If so, what is the command to shutdown?  
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> shutdown -r now

That restarts, right? To shut down without rebooting, try

  shutdown -h now

For more info try 

  man shutdown

or you can get a brief look at Gary's Encyclopedia (about linux in
general, not debian in particular):

  http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/shutdown.html

--Miguel