On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 08:47:46AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 01:35:13PM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > > doesn't shutdown and halt/power off. > > > Instead, these machines shutdown and immediately reboot. > > Try > > shutdown -h now > > The -h means halt > > look at > [...] > > 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 I've used "shutdown -h now" ever since I started using LInux (1995), and it always shuts down the machine, leaving it powered OFF. My current motherboard supports UEFI, but I've disabled it in the BIOS/SETUP screens,... perhaps if I hadn't done that, shutdown -h would work differently, but as I said it always has done that. > 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 > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 ------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
