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Huh?
I'm not sure what you did, exactly, but "sudo shutdown now" does exactly that for me -- it shuts the system down now. The only variation I ever use is "sudo shutdown -r now", which reboots automatically. The closest flag I see is -k, which:
Kick every body off. The -k option does not actually halt the system, but leaves the system multi-user with logins disabled (for all but super-user). This sounds vaguely like single-user mode, but the term isn't actually used so I'm not sure if it counts. So tell us, is this really what you executed, or was there some flag applied? Because, when doing exactly what you describe, I get the book behavior, not this single user mode you talk about...
Not here...
On both our G4/733 and iBook 500, "sudo shutdown now" winds up at the "localhost#" single-user prompt; the machine does NOT power off.
Not here...
Brainfart & apologies -- I was thinking of "shutdown -h now", which does as I described, because the -h Halts. Omitting it, which I've basically never needed to do (not that that means all that much), would drop into a kind of single user mode. My apologies for the confusion/error.
shutdown does shutdown.
my experience on two different machines:
sudo shutdown nowshuts down the machine. It only drops into single user mode if the machine was placed in single user mode on startup (cmd-s on bootup). |
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