On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Olivier Boudry wrote:

> There are probably several way to shut down your computer. The one I use is:
> shutdown -h now
> You have to be logged as root to do this.
> 
> I read this in the faqs and don't know what the -h stands for.

halt.  Likewise, 'shutdown -r now' reboots.  shutdown now drops you to
single-user mode (at least it used to, I assumt that hasn't changed :-).
You can also specify a time (type man shutdown for the exact syntax)
instead of 'now' to send other users an alert every so many minutes until
shutdown time (If I remember right, the interval drops to being every one
minute when shutdown is coming up in less than 10 minutes, or something
like that...).

Hope that helps,

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