X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 11:20:24 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: shutdown doesn't do anything, winXP Message-ID: <20110902092024.GC22172@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4E5FD423.4090506@molconn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E5FD423.4090506@molconn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Sep 1 14:51, LMH wrote: > I have a bash script that runs rsync and I have been trying to add a > command to shutdown the computer after the backup has finished > running. > > I have added, > > shutdown -s now > > and also tried, > > shutdown -s 5 > shutdown -x now > shutdown -x 5 > > but the computer doesn't shut down. Running which shutdown gives me, > > /usr/bin/shutdown > > so I know its there. > > Any suggestions? Try the -f/--force option. Note that shutdown can succeed even if the machine won't actually shutdown. See, for instance, the remarks section on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376874%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple