Michael C. Toren on Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:49:56 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] wont shut down properly


> Ah... that wouldn't be a normal message to expect.
> 
> You could try to redirect the output of your shutdown command to a file
> with:  shutdown -h now > shutdown.out
> 
> I'm not sure if shutdown outputs stdout or stderr.

Actually, neither.  Shutdown isn't responsible for the actual work involved
in shutting down the system; all it does is send a message to init by calling
"/sbin/init 0".

The man page for shutdown(1) has additional information.

-mct