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When I go to shutdown my computer the last line reads ...system halted... but the computer is still "on" I know this technically means that the OS is shutdown, but I would like to know what I can do to make it do to turn it "off" The CPU and the monitor and stuff...
su (enter) root password(enter) shutdown -h now (enter)
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Response Number 2
Name: Bill Freeman Date: May 9, 2001 at 01:46:31 Pacific
Reply:
Hello Eric! The "system is halted" message was common with RedHat 5.x versions. This message means that the O/S is shut down, but you still have to manually power off your PC and monitor. RedHat 6.2 now adds another line after "system is halted" of "Power down" to re-inforce this.
If you use red hat 7 and you're trying to shutdown from X, the computer don't turn off automatically. To fix this, edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and replace command="halt" to command="halt -p"
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