Date: 11 Oct 2001 12:39:14 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AW: shutdown with power off ? Message-ID: <864rp6s8wt.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> In-Reply-To: <KIEEILJCLAIJNFGECHJOEEBKCCAA.js@jonsonn.de> References: <KIEEILJCLAIJNFGECHJOEEBKCCAA.js@jonsonn.de>
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> > Hi, > > > > I am a new user with FreeBSD-4.4 release, and was wondering how to > > poweroff my machine. I tried "halt -p" but it just halts and wants > > me to press a key so that it reboots. Can freebsd interact with > > APM and really turn the power off ? You need to enable apmd. To do this, in /etc/rc.conf add these lines: apmd_enable="YES" apmd_flags="-e 1 -d 1" After a reboot (or doing apmd -e 1 -d 1 from the prompt) shutdown -p now should power the machine down. HTH -- Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com> Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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