Mandar Behere wrote:
> Hi,
> As far as man pages are searched, it doesn't show -y option for shutdown.
> If it's a valid option what does it do ?

He mistyped y instead of t. Forgive him, Mandar.

> > "shutdown -y now" server does not shutdown instead it
> > returns to bash prompt.

See what happens if you say 'reboot' ?

> > When I press ctrl-alt-del the
> > server starts shutting down immediately be it any
> > point of operation of the server ie booting or booted.
> > I want to disable this. How do I do it?

init captures this key-combination [CAD] and issues the command
which is in the line containing

ctrlaltdel

in your /etc/inittab

Check this out.

Rohit

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