shutdown command

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Tue Feb 14 04:32:20 UTC 2012


On 02/13/2012 09:52 PM, Sam Sebastian wrote:
> when i run the shutdown command from the terminal (sudo) it does not
> shutdown the computer, it just goes to the screen, i really don't know what
> its called its the same one that shows up in boot up and when you do "sudo
> service lxdm restart" or something similar. Is the something that i am
> missing?
>
> thanks Sam
>

I don't know what the shutdown command is supposed to do.  That must be 
something new in recent Ubuntu releases (try man shutdown).  The command 
you probably want, however, is "sudo poweroff"





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