From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 17:26:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C954037B401 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f8A0QEZ36572; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:26:13 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Beech Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: emachines power off-on Message-ID: <20010909172613.A3534@tao.thought.org> References: <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org> <20010909072034.698E58C2F@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010909072034.698E58C2F@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>; from root@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:20:33PM -0800 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community 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 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message