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On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 22:28, Anti wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2003 12:40:11 -0500
> "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> wrote:
> 
> > >My experience has been just the reverse.
> > >
> > >shutdown -p now
> > >
> > >did not work on 4.x
> > >does work on 5.0
> > >
> > >I love 5.0.
> >
> > I don't want to start a fuss, but your comment about 4.x not working is
> > misleading to the list. It's okay to say that it didn't work for you, but
> > it was not because 4.x doesn't support the shutdown IF properly configured
> > and IF the computer supports it too.
> > 
> > I know you said "My experience...." but might imply 4.x won't work.
>
> in my experience 4.x cannot power down, even with apm in the kernel, while
> 5.x can out of the box...

I've had 4.x powering down using -p since around 4.2 or something like
that. It must be your setup ;)