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Majkijin

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From: AGH-UST Krakow, Poland

Registered: 2005-08-03

Posts: 18

Multiple ways of shutting down the system

Hi, I want to ask one question. What are differences between shutting down the system by executing either halt or shutdown command or telinint 0?
Thanks in advance.

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Multiple ways of shutting down the system

I don't think there are any... Quote from man:

shutdown  does  its  job  by signalling the init
       process, asking it to change the runlevel.  Runlevel 0 is used to  halt
       the  system, runlevel 6 is used to reboot the system, and runlevel 1 is
       used to put to system into a state where administrative  tasks  can  be
       performed; this is the default if neither the -h or -r flag is given to
       shutdown.  To see which actions are taken on halt  or  reboot  see  the
       appropriate entries for these runlevels in the file /etc/inittab.

Pick2

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From: Illinois

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 55

Re: Multiple ways of shutting down the system

I ssh into one of my Mac or Linux computers and issue:

sudo shutdown -h now

to shutdown the OS and shut the power off with no ill effects.

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allucid

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Registered: 2006-01-06

Posts: 259

Re: Multiple ways of shutting down the system

you can also use poweroff

ScriptDevil

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From: In Front of My PC

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 253

Re: Multiple ways of shutting down the system

shutdown -hP now

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