On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:59:25 -0600 David L. Anselmi wrote: > Anyone know if there are commands > that halt the system that bypass shutdown? No, I don't. So I'll just guess, since it's Wednesday night. kill -SIGKILL 1 telinit 0 Please note I have not tried the first, and the second only maybe once or twice, for some reason I don't recall.