boris:~ # uname -a; uptime
Linux boris 2.6.11.4-21.13-default #1 Mon Jul 17 09:21:59 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
  6:52pm  up 308 days  0:07,  1 user,  load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
boris:~ # shutdown -h now

Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Thu Sep 13 18:52:46 2007):

The system is going down for system halt NOW!