Fellow Pluggers, So I am trying to perform a remote poweroff command and for some reason the host powers itself off. I am able to run another command such as yum just fine but when I try to execute the poweroff command the host turns off as well. Below is the script that I am running #!/bin/bash for server in $(cat serverlist.txt); do ssh $server.localdomain 'yum update -y && poweroff' done Also note that the serverlist.txt does not contain the host itself. Thanks for the help. Nadim Hoque