"shutdown now "problem for RHEL 4 server

shipon_97 · 09-19-2007, 10:17 AM

Dear Friends ,

I m using RHEL 4 server . During shutting down the server when I execute comand "shutdown now" , then the server does not shutdown properly . It shows "bash3.1" prompt onto the Display . Can anybody plz tell me ,

Is this ("shutdown now") command not suitable for this serve to shutdown the server ?

ethics · 09-19-2007, 10:38 AM

Well i've never tried

Code:

shutdown now

what about trying

Code:

shutdown -h now

for halt after shutting down or

Code:

shutdown -r now

for a reboot?

Junior Hacker · 09-19-2007, 06:05 PM

In all of my distributions I issue either of these two as root:

Code:

halt
reboot

SlowCoder · 09-19-2007, 08:43 PM

man shutdown

Quote:

... runlevel 1 is used to put to system into a state where administrative tasks can be performed; this is the default if neither the -h or -r flag is given to shutdown.

Looks to me like you're going into runlevel 1 (single user).