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Subject: Re: turn off FreeBSD 5.1 machine? completely?
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Matthew Seaman wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:23:04PM +0200, hugle wrote:
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>  
>
>>How can I turn off machine completely?
>>cause it waits for CTRL+D of root pass..
>>
>  
>
<snip>

>Alternatively, and only if you have support for apm or acpi in your
>kernel and a compatible motherboard, you can type:
>
>    # shutdown -p now
>
>which does exactly the same as 'shutdown -h' but goes on to power down
>the system automatically.  This is safe to use if your system doesn't
>have the appropriate support -- it just halts the system but fails to
>either power down or (I think) tell you that the system is down.
>  
>

You think correctly, according to my experience.  A box
(running 5.X) that doesn't support apm/apci simply acts
as if you called "-h" instead of "-p".  A Good Thing.

Kevin Kinsey