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Re: How to shut down

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On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, solitone wrote:
> What's the current best practice to shut down the system? In the old
> days I used to:
> # shutdown - h now
> 
> but then I read of the systemd way:
> # systemctl poweroff
> 
> However, with the latter the system does shut down, although the
> machine does not power off (I have to physically press the off
> button). While with the former it actually powers off.

You can use either. `shutdown -h now` on a machine with systemd actually
invokes systemctl with the equivalent of systemctl poweroff[1].

If your machine isn't actually powering off, usually that indicates that
one or more units isn't finishing properly. The output of journalctl
will tell you what is going on in such a case.

1: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/systemctl/systemctl.c#L7900
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Don Armstrong                      https://www.donarmstrong.com

[C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought.
It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
 -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4

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How to shut down solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2018-03-27 15:40 +0200
  Re: How to shut down Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-03-27 16:40 +0200
  Re: How to shut down Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> - 2018-03-27 18:20 +0200
    Re: How to shut down Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-27 18:50 +0200
      Re: How to shut down Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-03-27 19:30 +0200
  Re: How to shut down Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-03-27 19:10 +0200
    Re: How to shut down solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2018-04-01 07:40 +0200
      Re: How to shut down Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> - 2018-04-01 14:50 +0200

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