Thank you all, Both shutdown -p and halt -p work.
Petr On Fri, 15 May 2009 03:02:47 Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Hi, > :I often watch movies untill I fall asleep. As this has been generating > : quite a bit of income for electricity companies, I tried using shutdown > : -h +60. > : > :This makes the computer though proceed with shutdown but stop at the very > : end saying something like "You can shut down your computer now or press a > : button to reboot". > : > :Why is this happening? ACPI? Whats the best way to time a shutdown? > : > :Thanks, > :Petr > > I always use 'halt -p' myself. 'shutdown -p ...' should work well. > > A shutdown without -p does not normally power off the machine. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dil...@backplane.com>
