Re: [SLE] shutting down at failsafe login

Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> writes:

One reason to use the shutdown command rather than halt or init 6 or the three finger salute is that shutdown generally issues the sync system call and shuts down your system properly.

Actually, there isn't much difference in the result nowadays since shutdown instructs the init process to go to runlevel 0 or 6 (the same as init does) and halt and Ctrl-Alt-Del invoke shutdown. Classical Unixes behave differently. -- A.M.