From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 18:58:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFDD37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 18:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5FA043E75 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 18:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8R1wLLm015511; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:58:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8R1wK4f015508; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:58:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: John Bleichert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: powering down References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 26 Sep 2002 21:58:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44n0q4i477.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 6 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 John Bleichert writes: > Is there any way to get FreeBSD to actually shut off my hardware? It won't > do so on any of my boxes using 'shutdown -h now'. As suggested in the FAQ, try APM. Start with "man apm". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message