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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.
diff --git a/hurd/faq/which_microkernel.mdwn b/hurd/faq/which_microkernel.mdwn
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta title="What happened to the L4/Coyotos/viengoos micro-kernels?"]]
-L4 was promising but happened to not be suitable for implementing a general-purpose operating system on top of it. See [[history/port_to_l4]].
+L4 was promising but happened to not be suitable for implementing a general-purpose operating system on top of it. See [[history/port_to_l4]] for the historical details.
Coyotos is abandoned upstream