Re: shutting down a Linux box

 >I've never had a problem shutting down a Linux box. shutdown -h now
 > but come to think of it, why would you shut it down in the first 
place? :)

Our office is not unusual in that it sends out notices that the stand-by 
generators are to be tested, and would everybody please shut down 
vulnerable servers NOW.  Linux is a bugger to shutdown if the version 
doesn't support the hardware shutdown process, and every box appears to 
work differently.

Windows shuts down exactly as a box should.

This is a Linux annoyance.

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Reilly Burke