From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 14:31:41 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 5B77916A423 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:31:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA9A343D4C for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:31:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id k2LEVdiU025336; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:31:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id k2LEVdSL025335; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:31:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200603211431.k2LEVdSL025335@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au (Malcolm Fitzgerald) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:31:39 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <7e6edc4c961db1f296c1a3d995129635@pacific.net.au> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 14:31:41 -0000 > > 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? Sounds like one (or both) of two things. One (most likely) you are using the wrong command to shut the machine down. shutdown -h [now] tells it to shut down the system and leave it on but in a 'halted' state, just as you are seeing. You need to use: shutdown -p [now] to get it to power down after it finishes shutting down. The other possibility is that your BIOS is either not set to accept a power down signal or there is some incompatibility with it and what FreeBSD sends it. If just switching to '-p' above doesn't do the trick, go in to the BIOS and look for where it turns the software power down feature on and off and make sure it is on. ////jerry > > Malcolm > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >