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Date:      Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:26:13 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        Beech <root@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: emachines power off-on
Message-ID:  <20010909172613.A3534@tao.thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010909072034.698E58C2F@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>; from root@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:20:33PM -0800
References:  <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org> <20010909072034.698E58C2F@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>

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On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:20:33PM -0800, Beech wrote:
> 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.
> 

	Thanks for the tip; it is in the man page (that I admit to
	not have read for a few years.  I'll give it a try...altho
	with fingres crossed...  .

	gary


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   Gary Kline     kline@thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix


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