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Subject: Re: shutdown -p now
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Liam Foy wrote:

> shutdown -p now is dependant upon hardware, and am 100% sure my hardware
> supports this; yet it still does not work. Must I have anything added to
> my kernel configuration or anything? 

What version of FreeBSD are you using?  Do you have ACPI enabled, if on
5.x?

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research