Are you running this on a virtual machine? If so, are you powering off its
host machine?
On May 31, 2016 9:22 PM, "Nadim Hoque" <nadimhoque@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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