Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 03:03:31 +0100 (CET) From: BOUWSMA Beery <freebsd-user@netscum.dyndns.dk> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion for shutdown/halt man pages Message-ID: <200112310203.fBV23Vb00375@beerswilling.netscum.dyndns.dk>
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Mojn
The man pages for shutdown and halt hint at the -p option to power
off the system, without giving all the needed details. In addition,
the setting in /etc/rc.conf that can enable this functionality does
not mention its magical powers for this.
I suggest the following, more or less, based on the -stable man
pages.
halt/reboot/etc:
-p The system will turn off the power if it can. This is of course
likely to make reboot rather similar to halt. See shutdown(8)
for more details.
shutdown:
(This probably needs to be reworded to reflect reality, rather than
my warped vision thereof)
-p The system is halted and the power is turned off (hardware sup-
port required) at the specified time. In order for this to
succeed, the hardware support must be complemented by enabling
apm(8) (apm -e enable), which is easiest done at boot time by
setting apm_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
And then in /etc/defaults/rc.conf itself:
apm_enable="NO" # Set to YES to enable APM BIOS functions (or NO).
# This is needed to make `shutdown -p' work.
Alternatively, if a single line is a goal:
apm_enable="NO" # Enable APM BIOS functions (`shutdown -p' needs this)
Of course, if what I've written is *not* true, then I'd like to know
just what the reality really is...
thanks
barry bouwsma
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