From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 0:20:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (cable-95-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DA037B405 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 00:20:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix, from userid 0) id 698E58C2F; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:20:34 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech To: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Mailing List) Subject: Re: emachines power off-on Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:20:33 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010909072034.698E58C2F@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 08 September 2001 22:12, Gary Kline wrote: > Hopefully someone who is using FBSD on an E-machines box > can give me some clues re _why_ the power off and on > is so quirky. > > > When I was running SuSE, and did a shutdown -h now, the > emachines box would shut down and turn the system off. > Pressing the power button again brought things back up. > When I installed FreeBSD a few months ago and did a > shutdown -h now and power off by hand, trying to reset by hand > did/does nothing. I have to pull out the power cord and > reinsert it. (Obviously, I could put the power switch on > a different power bar and hand-reset that way...) > > This is a ``safety'' feature or what?! Jeez.... :-) > > TIA, y'all, > > gary Try doing a shutdown -p now. The "p" flag is the power down flag. I use an etower 500ix, and it works fine for me. Beech -- Micro$oft: "Where can we make you go today?" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message