I''m sorry for my second email, when using halt or shutdown -h it doesn't
give that message.

Thanks barius.


On 1/10/07, Tijnema ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On 1/10/07, Barius Drubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:49, Tijnema ! wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a (B)LFS system installed, and when i shutdown i get a message
> > like Enter root password or press Control-D to continue., so it
> > doesn't matter if i type the root password, or press Control-D my pc
> > doesn't shut down. Specs:
> [snip]
> >
> > so, i have 2 quations, first how can i remove that message "Enter
> > root password or press Control-D to continue"??
> > and second, why doesn't my computer shutdown, rebooting is fine.
>
> What command are you using to shut down?
>
> The behaviour you describe is typical of bringing the system down to
> single user mode, and the prompt message you describe is issued by
> sulogin.


So, where to remove it?

If you just enter a command like "shutdown now" it will bring the system
> down to single user mode give a behaviour like you describe.  Since you
> say rebooting is fine, you probably know to use the "-r" switch to the
> shutdown command.  Well, to really shutdown the system, you need to use
> the "-h" (halt) switch.  You can also use the halt command which will
> do a shutdown -h in the same way that reboot command will do shutdown
> -r.


I was just using shutdown now command to shut it down, i will try the -h
option.


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