From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 9 10:11:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23339 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 10:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from callisto.fortean.com (callisto.fortean.com [209.42.194.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23334 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 10:11:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walter@fortean.com) Received: from localhost (walter@localhost) by callisto.fortean.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA21214; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 13:11:15 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: callisto.fortean.com: walter owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 13:11:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Bruce M. Walter" To: Andrew Maltsev cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM power off (patch) In-Reply-To: <199803091722.UAA03954@amsoft.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've uploaded my patch (2.2-stable based) to > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/am-atx-power-off.patch.gz > > What was done: > - kernel apm driver now able to power off system > - /sbin/shutdown has new flag `-p' to switch power off after shutdown The kernel poweroff stuff is important for my UPS work and patches have been submitted via send-pr for a shutdown queue for a while. I don't believe they've been committed though. We really need a standard (and safe) way of requesting the kernel to poweroff the machine. It would be nice if all of this stuff could work together???? - Bruce ======================================================================== || Bruce M. Walter || 107 Timber Hollow Court #335 || || Senior Network Consultant || Chapel Hill, NC 27514 || || Fortean Technologies, Inc. || Tel: 919-967-4766 || || Information Technology Consultants || Fax: 919-967-4395 || ======================================================================== || BSD Unix -- It's not just a job, it's a way of life! || ======================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message