[CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

Thu Nov 8 13:41:16 UTC 2012
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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.
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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.
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