Re: shutdown doesn't shut down

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On Wednesday 04 February 2015 13:47:46 Matthew Miller wrote:
> > man shutdown
>
> Right.... --poweroff should be the default. --halt should bring it to a
> halted state but leave the power on (not so useful these days), which
> is I guess why -h is now equivalent to --poweroff and you need to use
> -H or --halt if you want that. But it shouldn't _reboot_ unless you use
> the -r or --reboot flag.
>
> --
> Matthew Miller
> <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fedora Project Leader

Maybe I should have followed my own advice. I can't remember the last time I 
actually looked at the man page, but I always use '-h' and always have.

Ever since the power supplies changed from a physical toggle switch, -h has 
always turned off the PC in my experience, which does actually contradict the 
man page 
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