Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:34:26 -0700 From: Mike Eubanks <mse_software@charter.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: "J. Nyhuis" <cabal@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: ``shutdown -p now'' not working in 5.4 STABLE Message-ID: <1123191266.786.55.camel@yak.mseubanks.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.61b.0508041420420.85928@aagaard02.u.washington.edu> References: <1123187556.786.25.camel@yak.mseubanks.net> <p06230918bf183089b61b@[128.113.24.47]> <Pine.A41.4.61b.0508041420420.85928@aagaard02.u.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:21 -0700, J. Nyhuis wrote: > Wouldn't you want a -h for "halt" to prevent it from powering back > up? > > Thanks, > > John H. Nyhuis > Sr. Computer Specialist > Dept. of Pediatrics > HS RR349B, Box 356320 > University of Washington > Desk: (206)-685-3884 > cabal@u.washington.edu > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > At 1:32 PM -0700 8/4/05, Mike Eubanks wrote: > >> I have finished migrating my system from 5.1-RELEASE to 5.4-STABLE. > >> The system no longer powers down using either the `shutdown -p now' > >> or `acpiconf -s 5' commands. Instead it always restarts. > > > > This won't help much, but I have a system running 5.4-STABLE as of > > Thu Jul 28, and `shutdown -p now' works on that. Dual-athlon. > > > > -- > > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu Yeah, the `-h' option does halt the system. The system does not power down though as it should with `-p' (halt and power down). -- Mike Eubanks <mse_software@charter.net>
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