Re: [CentOS] HELP: CentOS box won't shutdown

[Jay Chandler <chandler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 10, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Clive Gould wrote:

Hi

We have a mission critical Dell rackmount server.

I tried to reboot it via an ssh session and it just kept running!

The command I used was:

[root@vle tmp]# shutdown -r now

Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Oct 10 08:28:44 2006):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!

Looking at /var/log/messages it says:

Oct 10 08:28:44 vle shutdown: shutting down for system reboot

But the server just keeps on running!!!

I have an identical hot backup box and it happily rebooted this morning.

Any suggestions most welcome...

Thanks

Clive

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Did you try the reboot command?

Failing that, does the shutdown -h work?

There's always the "kill power" option, but that's not recommended for the health of your disks...

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Jay Chandler

Network Administrator, Chapman University

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