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Date:      Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:17:15 -0700
From:      Mike Eubanks <mse_software@charter.net>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Owe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgensen?= <oweandre@stud.ntnu.no>
Subject:   Re: ``shutdown -p now'' not working in 5.4 STABLE
Message-ID:  <1123276635.4278.23.camel@yak.mseubanks.net>
In-Reply-To: <42F33FA6.6060808@stud.ntnu.no>
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On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 12:29 +0200, Owe Jørgensen wrote:
> Mike Eubanks wrote:
> 
> >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).
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> I guess it would be more healthy for the system and your fitness if you 
> reached down and turned it off manually after a shutdown -h....

:-)

Right you are.  Once the machine is being used, though, I will need one
arm that is at least 240 miles in length and rippling back muscles to
carry the weight of my arm.  :-)

-- 
Mike Eubanks <mse_software@charter.net>



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