Shutdown command?
 

I know this is a dumb problem to have, but I don't know the command to shutdown a Linux box from the console. I always just hit Crl+Alt+Del, waited for it to reboot to the boot loader, and then hit the power switch. I realized that I didn't know the command when my buddy was sitting at my computer and asked me how to turn it off. It was a little embarassing to have to say "I don't know."

Please advise.

the command is "shutdown". Do man shutdown for detail

shutdown -h now

that should do the trick.

<edit>i'm always finishing the race last. guess it's ok, as long as i finish. :) </edit>

Don't be embarrassed, i've heard at one point that Linus Torvalds himself once asked the same question. :D

Really? Wow. Sort of like Henry Ford asking "So. How do we start this auto-mo-bile?"

Thanks.

init 0 -> for shutdown
init 6 -> for restart

if shutdown don't work try halt -p or halt -P, can't remember which. it worked on my slack12.0 installation

I like "shutdown -r now" for the reboot function