[SOLVED] openrc-shutdown doesn't seem to do anything

[iamshapeless]

When I run:

[steve_v]

AFAIK, those are only used when using openrc to replace /sbin/init, which is not the default configuration.
Unless you are passing init=/sbin/openrc-init on the kernel command line, the traditional sysv 'shutdown' command is what you want.
See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC

[iamshapeless]

On systemd distros I was under the impression that it's "better" to use systemctl to reboot, so I saw something that looked like it did the same thing but for OpenRC and assumed I should use that. Thanks for clearing that up!