No actually in some other versions of unix ( i can think of wipros winix
for one) shutdown -y answers yes to the question "do you really want to
shutdown ?"
This confirmation question is not there in linux, hence the shutdown
command was failing for him.
Rohit wrote:
>
> 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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