As root, do shutdown -h now. where now means shutting down the machine immediately. For more info, man shutdown.
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:50:52PM -0500, André Bell wrote: > Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me > at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any > commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when I'm > finished. Apparantly that is a bad idea. > > I'm guessing there must be a way to get debian to shutdown properly so I > don't have to wait for everything to uncompress and unmount before it can > boot up again(?). > > If so, what is the command to shutdown? Or is it simply cntrl/alt/del to > cause debian to stop everything from running and then turn it off at memory > checking? That's the only way I know how to avoid error messages that say > the system was not properly unmounted. > > Thanks > > Andre' > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _____________________________________________________________________________
