shutdown command

[Rashkae]

On 02/13/2012 11:32 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> 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"
>
>
Bah, I'm an idiot.  If you wanted to use shutdown command (been so long, 
I forgot about it.).. you would invoke it as shutdown -h -t now.  But 
poweroff should be a shortcut for that.