Re: [Hampshire] Instant poweroff

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Author: Jonathan Hudson
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Instant poweroff
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:08:46 +0000
Keith Edmunds <kae@???> wrote:

> My Google-foo is clearly deficient. How can I power off a Linux system
> immediately, the equivalent to pulling the plug out of the wall? I don't
> need to terminate processes, umount filesystems, etc, I just want it to
> power off.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>


Perhaps

# poweroff --force

(not tested :)

-jh