On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:38:30PM -0500, Jed wrote:
I just installed the 2.4.22-1.2140 kernel update. Now when I issue
'/sbin/shutdown now' the system goes into single user mode and I get a
sh prompt instead of the system shutting down. On the other hand just
typing 'reboot' works fine.
I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.
The default behavior of the "shutdown" command is to drop to single-user
mode, unless it is passed the -r or -h flag on the command line. You
can find more information in the shutdown(8) man page.
Cheers,
Nalin