[Bglug] Halt and poweroff

[LP]

I use to use "sudo shutdown", now it gives the response "use shutdown
--help".
"sudo poweroff" , works.
How many other commands that I thought I knew have changed I wonder.




On 9 July 2016 at 11:44, Andrew Howlett <andrew at howlett.net> wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> I always use the halt command (sudo halt for ubuntu people) to turn off my
> box. Recently I noticed that halt stops the linux kernel but won't turn off
> the power. I thought maybe it's a ACPI problem. But no, actually it is
> systemd correctly implementing the commands. Halt closes the system but
> leaves it powered up. Poweroff or shutdown close and power off the system.
>
> Sent from my phone.
>
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