Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

[hackmiester / Hunter Fuller]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:17, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Yance Kowara wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Yes, strangely enough shutdown -h now in FreeBSD will only halt the
> > machine. halt -p will poweroff the box, and shutdown -p now will also
> > power off the box.
>
> The shutdown options don't seem very strange to me: H stands for Halt, P
> stands for Power. The halt manpage says that "Normally, the shutdown(8)
> utility is used when the system needs to be halted ... cleanly
> terminating specific programs."
>
> > In Linux, shutdown -h now will power off the machine.
Not the case for me. For me it's just like FBSD.
>
> *That* makes no sense to me, and I would find it to be unexpected
> behavior... but I guess it's a matter of what you're used to.
>
> --
> Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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