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Subject: Re: shutdown -p now
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Kjell wrote:

>If you are using r4.8 you should not get this error message,
>and the above instructions should work.
>If you are using r5.0 you will get the above error message.
>Further, "shutdown -p now" does not work yet on r5.0
>IE: stay with r4.8 if you want shutdown -p now to work.
>regards
>Kjell

My experience has been just the reverse.

shutdown -p now

did not work on 4.x
does work on 5.0

I love 5.0.

Scott