shutdown doesn't do anything, winXP

shutdown doesn't do anything, winXP

[LMH]

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?

LMH

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Re: shutdown doesn't do anything, winXP

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 9/1/2011 2:51 PM, 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?

One - try the full path?

Otherwise:
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Re: shutdown doesn't do anything, winXP

[Corinna Vinschen]

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

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Re: shutdown doesn't do anything, winXP

[LMH]

Using the full path was successful.

As an aside, why does which shutdown return /usr/bin/shutdown when the 
shutdown app is located in /bin/shutdown? What value does the /usr part 
of the path have in this context?

I suppose I should use force, but I never have anything running when I 
run the backup script that this is part of.

LMH



Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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
>

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Re: shutdown doesn't do anything, winXP

[Warren Young]

On 9/2/2011 11:26 AM, LMH wrote:
>
> As an aside, why does which shutdown return /usr/bin/shutdown when the
> shutdown app is located in /bin/shutdown? What value does the /usr part
> of the path have in this context?

/bin and /usr/bin are the same thing by default under Cygwin.  c:\cygwin 
is mounted as root, and then c:\cygwin\bin is mounted as /usr/bin.  I 
imagine one could change this behavior with /etc/fstab, if one wanted.

"which" is using /usr/bin in your case simply because that was found 
first in your PATH environment variable.

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