Answering Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org> (Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:05:12 -0700): Hi! > I've got a fresh CentOS 7 test machine, fully patched. The command: > shutdown -h now > surprisingly does not halt the machine. Instead it reboots it. WTF? Maybe it helps to poweroff explicitly? shutdown -hP now I had the same problem on SUSE machines. Cheers Dirk -- http://d5e.org/ - http://taskwarrior.org/ http://bloonix.org/ - http://gelberhund.ch/ http://yawnrz.com/ - http://myown-it.com/