Aborting Poweroff

[vickey_20]

Is there a way like in windows to prevent shutdown with "shutdown -a" in linux

[vickey_20]

Is there a way like in windows to prevent shutdown with "shutdown -a" in linux

is there a way to do that please someone please tell me....

[blinky]

Try running "man shutdown" in a terminal

I think the "-c" option is the one you want.

[MikeTbob]

You might lose shell access, it's been so long since I have tried this I don't remember. So a simple Ctrl-C will kill the program. If you want to keep the shell access, tell it to fork with "&" added to the end of the command. Then you will be able to cancel with "shutdown -c."
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

[vickey_20]

loosing acess means ?

[MikeTbob]

That just means that the terminal will be busy shutting down and you won't be able to type any commands while it is doing this.
That's what the ampersand "&" is there for, it forces the command to run in the background and returns the command line to you in case you want to run more commands.

[i92guboj]

To interrupt the shutdown process can leave your system in an unusable state. You might want to run "init 3" if you do so to return to a normal state hopefully.

[vickey_20]

That just means that the terminal will be busy shutting down and you won't be able to type any commands while it is doing this.
That's what the ampersand "&" is there for, it forces the command to run in the background and returns the command line to you in case you want to run more commands.

Hey people i finally accomplished aborting poweoff. One needs to press CNTRL +C to kill the poweroff process. But I m still left with some doubts , some are pointing that one can losse access in this process but that does not seems to be the problem with me i.e I still have access to the terminal and can to everything possible....