[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Should 'shutdown -H' halt the system?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 11:07 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I'm working on fixing sysvinit bugs, and one of the issues I am unsure
> about is the ubuntu patch to make sure 'shutdown -H' halt the system
> and not just end up in single user.
> 
> Should shutdown -H halt the system?  Is the patch in bug #331041
> correct?

The idea is that -H is a modifier to -h. What should happen is this:

# shutdown -H now
shutdown: -H flags needs -h
shutdown: Usage: ......

Mike.