Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org> >> From: Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but >> reboots) > > Have you tried to shutdown from a CL console. <snip> I thought the OP said they'd used poweroff. man poweroff Excerpt: NAME reboot, halt, poweroff - reboot or stop the system SYNOPSIS reboot [OPTION]... halt [OPTION]... poweroff [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION These programs allow a system administrator to reboot, halt or poweroff the system. When called with --force or when in runlevel 0 or 6, this tool invokes the reboot(2) system call itself and directly reboots the system. Oth- erwise this simply invokes the shutdown(8) tool with the appropriate arguments. --- end excerpt --- mark