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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2010-11-01 17:40:33 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2010-11-01 17:40:33 +0100
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Add entry about shutting down a Hurd system
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta title="How am I supposed to shut my Hurd system down?"]]
+
+The GNU/Hurd does not use SYSV runlevels, so commands like
+
+ $ shutdown -h now
+
+will not work. Simply use the equivalent shortcut
+
+ $ halt
+
+which is provided natively on GNU/Hurd, instead of from SYSV runlevels.