How to return from shutdown command

[D-Man]

If you have just shutdown the system, how is the script supposed to
continue running?  ;-)

-D

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 03:01:54PM +1100, Craig Findlay wrote:
| I want to execute a Unix shutdown command from a python script, but
| have control return to the script, and I'm having trouble doing it.
| 
| I've tried:
| 
| commands.getstatusoutput('shutdown -h +1')
| and
| commands.getstatusoutput('/bin/sh -c "shutdown -h +1" \&')
| 
| but neither of these commands return.
| 
| Any help greatly appreciated!
| 
| Craig
|