While i didn't get to test my little experiment yesterday. Further reading into it, i don't it would have worked anyhow.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/cus ... es/1056248 - Customizing the Linux bootup and shutdown processes
The way i'm reading this, my experiment will not do anything, it will simply tell Mint i have persimmon to "shutdown". And will simply do it's Restart instead. I do not believe this is the file to fix this.The /etc/shutdown.allow file is a text file that contains one username per line. Each user named in this file is allowed to use the shutdown command.
In scientists link, the "sudo shutdown -P now" Should work. The second suggestion i may try as well. Anyone trying this, make a backup of grub file before editing. Or comment out old with #
than make the change.
Somewhere in a text file is a single Letter doing this, from -r when it shoulda been -P