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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:50:12 +0200
From:      Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
To:        rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shutdown And User Intervention
Message-ID:  <20041013175012.GA23062@lori.mine.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20041013145008.94842.qmail@web52105.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20041013145008.94842.qmail@web52105.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:50:08AM -0700, Rishi Chopra wrote:
> Is there a way to issue a shutdown command that
> doesn't require me to press a key to reboot?
> 
> Currently when I enter the command 'shutdown -p' the
> system shuts down gracefully but I have to press a key
> to reboot the system.
> 
> Ultimately I'd like to be able to power-off the system
> gracefully without requiring the user (me) to press a
> key  afterwards.

Add the following to your kernel configuration file, build and install a
new kernel and try shutdown -p again: 

device          acpica

It's not in de GENERIC kernel because 1) this feature is still
experimental (however it seems to work fine), and 2) many users never
shutdown -p their FreeBSD machines anyway. :-)  

GH

-- 
:wq



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