The most basic question ever -- shutting down

[mstembri3]

Hello, I installed Red Hat 7.0 (command line only) last week and have a simple question.

What is the proper method of shutting down? I've tried using:

% shutdown -r now

and it tells me : Bash: shutdown: command not found. I ran this from the root directory, logged in as Superuser (and I tried not being logged in as superuser).

I've read that it is bad to simply reboot or kill the power. If the shutdown command isn't working, how else do I get the job done?

I need to restart as I've reworked my network and would like the machine to redetect the cards.

[FoBoT]

what happens if you do this

./shutdown -h now


??

if you aren't root then putting the ./ tells bash to look for the command or something like that

my limited experience is that linux hates to be "shut-off" even worse than winders, nothing like a good UPS to keep a 'puter up! :D

[bsh152s]

Try 'shutdown -h now' to completely shutdown (halt) the machine. If that doesn't work, try Ctrl-Alt-F2 and then Ctrl-Alt-Del. But no, you definitely don't want to hit the reset button.

[mstembri3]

I just used:

% which shutdown

the system says there is no shutdown {paths]

[mstembri3]

Cool.

Control-alt-F2 logged me out.
Control-alt-delete rebooted the system.

Thanks for the help.

[FyberOptyx]

Try shut and then press tab it should fill the rest then -h now. -r reboots instead of shutting down.

[Whipping Boy]

You're not answering the question. The problem is either:
a) the shutdown command does not exist; or
b) it is not in the search path as defined in the PATH environment variable.

Run "which shutdown" again as root, and put everything it says here.

[chimaybleue]

in general, you can type reboot to recboot and halt to shutdown ... Quite basic, but it works ! (You have to be root) and ctrl-D is log out too.

[StanLin]

Try poweroff. Also see the man pages.

[Strike]

shutdown should be in /sbin, and I'd be surprised as hell to find out if it wasn't in there. So, try:

/sbin/shutdown -h now to power down
/sbin/shutdown -r now to reboot

You probably su'ed to root and it didn't inherit root's PATH. Do su - and it will work