From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 12:32:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0679416A44C for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:32:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yance_kowara@yahoo.com) Received: from web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3787943D46 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:32:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yance_kowara@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 70612 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Mar 2006 12:32:43 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ur1lNrYAwvnmLFRNUHCZHIe/PVRXrGUERN+f7CX88MmDSTsgdfAqo9Mx8e/ebV2370Lr3yrvdPS0RKkGjNYtLdPnOvWdcAngNn+MPwhNkRP5TX/5CbU4MTRDNDO/GIFq6DE59u8Vum62vp9G5fM6JVBekGlPO5AIGWTqmgBLBWA= ; Message-ID: <20060321123243.70610.qmail@web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [220.233.22.150] by web30302.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:32:43 PST Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:32:43 -0800 (PST) From: Yance Kowara To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:32:45 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vayu" To: Cc: "Malcolm Fitzgerald" Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? > On Monday 20 March 2006 20:04, Kevin Kinsey wrote: >> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: >> >> > When I log out and select "Turn off the computer" it shuts >> > down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying >> > this message: >> > >> > "The operating system has halted. >> > Please press any key to reboot." >> > >> > Pressing the power button fires up the system. I have >> > to hold the power button down for several seconds to >> > get a forced power-off or pull the plug. >> > >> > How do I setup BSD so that the command at the login >> > panel turns the machine off? >> > >> > Malcolm >> >> >> It might be helpful to mention your windowing >> system, but I doubt that it will make a lot of difference. >> >> Most likely, FreeBSD doesn't "grok" your system's >> ACPI. What does "uname -a" say? (Let's establish >> your OS version first). >> > > > I don't know about how your window system shuts down, but from the command > line I had the same problem. I was using "shutdown -h now" and it would > give > me the same message that the system was halted, press any key to reboot. > I > later learned that "shutdown -p now" would shut the power off as well. > Maybe > your window system is doing the equivalent of -h instead of -p. Yes, strangely enough shutdown -h now in FreeBSD will only halt the machine. halt -p will poweroff the box, and shutdown -p now will also power off the box. In Linux, shutdown -h now will power off the machine. Yance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com