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Authored by: robg on Feb 10, '02 04:21:27PM

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.

Typing "exit" from that point launches "multi-user startup" and returns to the Aqua environment.

-rob.



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Authored by: babbage on Feb 10, '02 09:04:03PM

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.



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shutdown does shutdown.
Authored by: uurf on Feb 11, '02 10:16:17PM
my experience on two different machines:
sudo shutdown now 
shuts 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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