From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jul 8 17:36:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C5037BA3D for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:36:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26066; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:36:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:36:11 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Marcio Rosa da Silva Cc: FreeBSD-mobile Subject: Re: Shutdown and turn-off Message-ID: <20000708173611.A26004@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from marcio@exatas.unisinos.br on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 09:26:19PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 09:26:19PM +0000, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > How can I make FreeBSD turn-off my computer after a shutdown? When I > shutdown the notebook, the system prints a message asking to press some > key to reboot (if I use shutdown -h or halt) and don't turn-off the > computer. > > I know this works because it works with Linux on the same machine, but I'm > switching to FreeBSD (which I use on my desktop also). You want to use the -p argument to shutdown. It didn't work for me under 3.x but it did under 4.0 and does under current. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message