/sbin/shutdown -h now doesn't?

[Paul Lussier]

Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> writes:

> It's because at some point in your career, you've offended that
> machine, and it's holding a grudge.  It simply doesn't like you.  
> But don't worry, it's not just you...  It doesn't like any of your
> coworkers or your friends, either.  You have had that much influence 
> on the thing.

That doesn't surprise me.  I'm really good at pissing off both people
and machines :)

> But it's probably not your fault at all -- some boxen
> are just plain hornery, like rotweilers...  =8^)

Is that supposed to 'ornery' or 'horney' ?

I'm not sure which set of puns use here, help me out :)

> I've come across this a few times myself, but only on Red Hat 6.x
> machines, AFAIK.

I've seen it on RH and Debian.
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Seeya,
Paul