X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:04:20 +1100 From: ADFHAU To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Bron Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: shutdown: Couldn't shutdown: Error 53 The network path was not found. Message-Id: <20090223210420.9a5f8012.cygwin@bachelorguy.com> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-PMX-Branch: TNG-Outgoing X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:39:48 +0100 Fr=E9d=E9ric Bron wrote: > What does this mean? >=20 > $ win_shutdown > WARNING!!! System is going down NOW > shutdown: Couldn't shutdown: Error 53 The network path was not found. >=20 > where win_shutdown just contains: > shutdown -s now Are you calling a cygwin supplied shutdown, or the windows supplied shutdown? Windows has its own "shutdown" command. I suspect it was treating "now" as a network path. Windows shutdown command: ------------------------- Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [= -c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy] No args Display this message (same as -?) -i Display GUI interface, must be the first op= tion -l Log off (cannot be used with -m option) -s Shutdown the computer -r Shutdown and restart the computer -a Abort a system shutdown -m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort -t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds -c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters) -f Forces running applications to close withou= t warning -d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown u is the user code p is a planned shutdown code xx is the major reason code (positive integ= er less than 256) yy is the minor reason code (positive integ= er less than 65536) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/