Shutdown, reboot

[alinden]

Hi!

When I issue 'shutdown -r now' the system will shutdown and say 
rebooting for ever after... or until I hit RESET on the front of the 
CPU. Isn't the system supposed to reboot on it's own, without user 
intervention?

The situation is the same, regardless of whether I use Red Hat Linux 
or Slackware.

Regards,
Adi