Re: Shutdown command in Terminal

[James Rice]

"shutdown -r  now" reboots, "-h" halts the system and "-p" powers it 
down.  This change is bringing  10.3.5 closer to the normal syntax of 
Unix like Solaris or Irix.  I  don't remember what the -o and -k do.  I 
never use them.  Does 10.3 have man pages?  You could run "man shutdown" 
and see.

James
Herbert Goodfriend wrote:
I recently upgraded from 10.2.8 to 10.3.5 (on a 1.25GHz MDD 2003). I 
wanted to run the file system check (fsck) and discovered that this is 
different in 10.3 from 10.2.

In OS 10.1 and 10.2, the Terminal command "sudo shutdown now" would 
put the machine into command line mode. In 10.3, the computer responds 
to "sudo shutdown now" with the following message:

shutdown: -o requires -h or -r
usage: shutdown [-] [-h | -p | -r | -k] [-o [-n]] time 
[warning-message ...]

I am guessing that it wants something added to the shutdown command, 
but I don't know what it means or how to enter it.

Any help appreciated. (I could not find any explanation in the Apple 
Knowledge Base.)

Herb Goodfriend

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