Re: Re: shutting down a Linux box

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 02:08, Reilly Burke wrote:
>  >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.
> 
actually this is a matter of unqualified admins...(just kidding) There
are plenty of help on the net about this due to the differences in power
management-to fix you need to enable the power management features on
the kernel or the system does not shut down. (It just means you have a
poorly compiled kernel.