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From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Subject: Re: 9.3RC3: halt
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Fri Dec 23 08:37:24 2011
> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:34:19 +0100
> From: Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de>
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: 
> Subject: 9.3RC3: halt
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Another question I wasn't able to answer proper to my self. 

READ THE MANPAGE.
>                                                             I recognized
> that the system is not turning of by default after typing halt, but
> waiting in some kind of standby for reboot. Is this wished behavior or
> maybe related to some local config/hardware?

This is -standard- behaviour. 

Has been so for many releases.  

If you want the machine to turn the power off, you must use the proper option
for that behavior.